Rock Shelter of Solhapa

The Rock shelter of Solhapa is a Paleolithic archaeological site in Duas Igrejas, Miranda do Douro [1]. On the cover of the grotto is an engraving, similar to others found in Spain and France, and which have been interpreted as representing a sorcerer [1]. It is a representation of a human figure, whose head, in a trapezoidal configuration, ends in points resembling a pair of branches [1]. The remaining sculptures can be found either on the interior walls of the cave or on the floor [1]. The iconographic diversity is great with dimples, perpendicular features, semicircles and straight and interconnected bars, almost labyrinthine [1]. There is also an element in the form of a snake and human figures, chronologically bounded between the end of the Neolithic period and the beginning of the Chalcolithic / Bronze Age [1].