The influence of prehistoric art at the origin of the paleohispanic scriptures. Bases for a discussion

Abstract

In this text, a general approach of a research case dedicated to the study of Postpaleolithic Rock Art and its iconographic links with the birth of the first writing systems in the Iberian Peninsula is presented. Prehistoric art has not been considered by scientific discussion of linguistic studies, due to the absence of multidisciplinary research between philologists and prehistorians. This study reveals that the prehistoric symbolism developed by indigenous peoples for several millennia, from the Neolithic until the Iron Age I, played a very important role in the origin of the Paleohispanic signaries of the Tartessian society and the pre-Roman peoples. In this article, their cultural, chronological, graphologicaland iconographic connections related to the invention of phonetic writing in ancient Hispania are explained.