PERSISTENCE IN SPANISH PREHISTORICAL ART OF PALEOLITHIC STYLE DURING THE MESOLITHIC - POSSIBLE BONDS WITH LEVANTINE STYLE AND SEQUENCE OF THE LATTER UNTIL SCHEMATIC ART

The present paper aims to show the so-called Palaeolithical style does not end in Magdalenian VI, but persists during Epipaleolithic. Accord ing to that, many from the undated rock figures, which are ranged as p alaeolithical on the basis of considering late Magdalenian a terminus ante quem for this kind of art, may also be later. Further on, it must be emphasized that the presumed hiatus between ''polychrome'' figures , that is the palaeolithical art at its height and Levantine paintings (two styles that are obviously unrelated) could at least in Spain be partially filled by other pictural trends as, for instance, the ''Petr acos'' or ''macroschematic'' and ''linear-geometrical'' styles.