Abstract
SummaryCantabrian portable art enjoys a long research tradition that has generated a vision of this phenomenon in which decoration seems to be determined by the type of artefact to be decorated and the context in which it participates. However, this conceptualization does not address the multiplicity of situations in which decorated objects were used. In the present work, both the iconographic variations in Cantabrian Magdalenian decorated objects and the diachronic changes in the use of the themes and artefacts are explored. For this, a quantitative analysis has been carried out and multivariate statistical tests have been applied on a sample of 293 objects that are distributed among 47 sites. The results point to a much more complex evolution of portable graphic activity in relation to the selection of the themes represented and the objects that were decorated.
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