ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the portable engravings and paintings, which include the remarkable assemblage from Parpallo, which was the focus for my own recent study of the prehistoric economy of the southern Valencia province of Spain. Parpallo, in south-eastern Spain, had over 6000 pieces of stone, each about the size of a human hand, decorated with engraved, painted, and engraved and painted designs, many of which included animal figures. Parpallo, used mostly after the layer in which the animal picture was left at Les Mallaetes, has evidence throughout of red deer antlers, either shed or from massacred animals, indicating a winter to spring use. The Upper Palaeolithic art of Europe is best known for some of its sculptures and for its painted caves. The different aspects of the interpretation of the information content of Palaeolithic 'art' each offer slightly different aspects of the relations between people and ideas.
