Places known for their prehistoric petroglyphs are often named
after the carved images and symbols found there. Focusing on a corpus of 115
representative toponyms from the Spanish, Galician and Portuguese speaking
areas, the present article explores the interaction between the lexical components
of place names and the rock carvings to which they refer. This analysis
allows us to distinguish between several types of name motivation
and to explain
the manner in which such enigmatic testimonies of past cultures were perceived
and interpreted before they became the subject of scholarly research.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:80461 |
| Date | 17 August 2022 |
| Creators | Ruhstaller, Stefan |
| Publisher | Deutsche Gesellschaft für Namensforschung e.V., Universitätsverlag Leipzig |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | German |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | urn:nbn:de:bsz:15-qucosa2-803849, 9, qucosa:80384 |
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