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Art/Literary - Archaeology | | Spanish term or phrase: pectiniforme | | I'm translating an article on prehistoric rock art and I need help translating "pectiniforme" It refers to a very simple shape, looking a bit like a comb, an horizontal line to which are added vertical strokes representing the legs, very schematic |
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| | pectiniform | Explanation:
This is the word used in English in relation to cave paintings.
See:
"There is here a similarity to the pectiniform or comb-like symbol found in caves and rock-shelters on the Continent."
ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/adsdata/PSAS_2002/pdf/vol.../69_122_137.pdf
"this site we can see 2 figures made with red pigment: a Pectiniform in horizontal position made with a thin trace - its dimensions are 3cm.higth/3.5cm wide -, and a sun shaped figure placed over the previus figure, made from a circunference of thin trace with 0,3 cm. and a diameter of 1´7 cm. From it, spread nine perimetral traces of 1 cm long. It was made with red pigment and its conservation status is not very good."
http://www.europreart.net/cgi-bin/baserun.cgi?_cfg=record.cf...
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| Selected response from:
  Gilla Evans
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| Grading comment thank you so much! it's exactly whatt I needed and the link is most helpful, I'm sure it'll be very useful for checking other terminology. Thanks again Gilla.
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