Only five years ago, Montserrat was a blank spot on the distribution map of islands in the Lesser Antilles where petroglyphs were known. In January 2016, hikers in Soldier Ghaut, a deeply incised watercourse in the northwest of the island, came upon a panel of nine petroglyphs engraved on a nearly vertical wall of volcanoclastic tuff. Soon afterward the petroglyphs were documented by the Survey and Landscape Archaeology on Montserrat project (SLAM). Then in January 2018 an additional petroglyph was spotted on a large slab of rock, detached from the rock wall on the opposite side of the ghaut. At the invitation of the Montserrat National Trust (MNT) and with European Union funding, Susana Guimarães and Christian Stouvenot traveled to Montserrat in 2018 to assist in further studies at the site. They conducted photogrammetric documentation and photography under enhanced lighting conditions and inspected the petroglyphs and their context in detail in order to advise MNT about their conservation and provisions for public access. This report presents this new group of petroglyphs and their landscape setting and considers questions of dating and interpretation.

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小安的列斯群岛蒙特塞拉特的士兵歌岩画

仅在五年前，蒙特塞拉特还是小安的列斯群岛岛屿分布图上的一个空白点，那里已知有岩画。2016 年 1 月，在该岛西北部一个深度切割的河道 Soldier Ghaut 的徒步旅行者在几乎垂直的火山碎屑凝灰岩墙上看到了九幅岩画。不久之后，蒙特塞拉特调查和景观考古项目 (SLAM) 记录了岩画。然后在 2018 年 1 月，在一块大岩石上发现了一个额外的岩画，该岩画与 ghaut 对面的岩壁分离。应蒙特塞拉特国家信托基金 (MNT) 的邀请并在欧盟的资助下，Susana Guimarães 和 Christian Stouvenot 于 2018 年前往蒙特塞拉特协助在该地点进行进一步研究。他们在增强的照明条件下进行了摄影测量记录和摄影，并详细检查了岩画及其背景，以便向 MNT 提供有关其保护和公众访问规定的建议。本报告介绍了这组新的岩画及其景观环境，并考虑了年代和解释的问题。