Rock Art Boat Depictions in Northwest Iberia: Digital Dataset Collection (3D, TVT, RTI)

This dataset collection provides the complete digital documentation supporting the paper “Boats on the Rocks: Late Prehistoric Nautical Iconography and Landscape, from Northwest Iberia to Scandinavia.” (published in PlosOne) The collection contains high‑resolution 3D laser‑scanning models, Structure‑from‑Motion (SfM) photogrammetric reconstructions, Reflectance Transformation Imaging (RTI) files, and enhanced surface visualizations generated with the Topography Visualisation Toolbox (TVT, https://tvt.dh.gu.se/). These materials document six rock art sites in northwest Iberia (Portugal and Spain) featuring prehistoric boat depictions.

Resource type: Collection
Total Items: 30
Size: 5.23 GB
Contributors: Data curator: Diaz-Guardamino, Marta ¹
Contact person: Diaz-Guardamino, Marta ¹
Creator: Diaz-Guardamino, Marta ¹
Data collector: Diaz-Guardamino, Marta ¹

¹ Durham University, United Kingdom
Funder: Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia
Riksbankens Jubileumsfond
Vetenskapsrådet
Laboratory of Landscapes, Heritage and Territory - Lab2PT
Research methods: Comparative typology
Digital Documentation
Keyword: 3D models
RTI
Enhanced visualizations
Subject: Prehistoric peoples
Art, Prehistoric
Marine art
Archaeology
Location: Braga, Braga, Portugal
Viana do Castelo, Viana do Castelo, Portugal
Galicia, Galicia, Spain
Language: English
Cited in: Paper to be accepted in PlosOne (https://journals.plos.org/plosone/)
Identifier: ark:/32150/r2hd76s0096
Publisher: Durham University
Date Created: 2026-04-04

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