This article examines the relationship between rock art landscapes and perception. It pays particular attention to vision and hearing, the two key senses for landscape awareness. Given the importance of scale in the study of rock art landscapes, a distinction is made between the adjacent landscape and the broader territorial scale. Several methodological improvements are suggested, including the importance of clipping viewsheds in GIS analysis and measuring directionality instead of orientation of the rock art shelters. In our case-study we explore the rock art landscape of the Alicante Mountains (northeastern Spain) during the Neolithic period (ca. 5600 to 2800 cal bc). A new interpretation of how the cognitive and symbolic behavior of communities changed over time is offered. We argue that the analysis of perception in rock art landscapes can provide novel ways of understanding communities’ distinctive appropriation of their landscapes, linking both the tangible and intangible aspects of their culture.

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你听到我看到的吗？分析西班牙阿利坎特山脉岩石艺术景观的可见性和可听性

本文探讨岩画景观与感知之间的关系。它特别关注视觉和听觉，这是景观意识的两个关键感官。鉴于规模在岩画景观研究中的重要性，对相邻景观和更广泛的领土规模进行了区分。建议了一些方法论改进，包括在 GIS 分析和测量方向性而不是岩画庇护所的方向中裁剪视域的重要性。在我们的案例研究中，我们探索了新石器时代（约公元前 5600 至 2800 年）阿利坎特山脉（西班牙东北部）的岩石艺术景观。提供了对社区的认知和象征行为如何随时间变化的新解释。