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The big "scientific question" here being approached is the need for the development of parallel (to the academic archaeological lines of research) scientific work, to be done in this particular case because the cultural Azorean landscape should not be considered "rupestral" or have any carved lines or shapes other than those created after the XV century by the official discovers (Portuguese). Facing the dilemma of "seeing" reality (in this cas...

Finding cup marks, rock basins, hundreds of menhir/stelae (some with engravings), carved horizontal slabs and the like, all bursting from rock outcrops in middle of the land pastures and surrounded by zoomorphic or anthropomorphic figures - is always a motive of surprise. But it becomes shocking and beyond belief when these findings are geographically placed in the middle of North Atlantic Ocean, on an Island where history says that no one liv...

By observing the relative positions of the rock basins (dispersed by six areas under study, complying a total of about 1000m2), and the combinations possible to establish between their shape, geographical positions, and marks displayed nearby (rock carved inscriptions and "cut marks"), several patterns became evident, although pertaining to different cultural paradigms, none of them from those of the first settlers - 1450s. But the existence o...