December 2021 issue of the prestigious Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports publishes in open access the paper The Cañaveral de León stela (Huelva, Spain). A monumental sculpture in a landscape of settlements and pathways.
Among the authors of this work is te member of IRNAS’ Research Group Environmental Microbiology and Cultural Heritage Miguel Ángel Rogerio Candelera, who has been the responsible for the digital image analysis strategy used for the detection of pigments applied on the obverse of this stela, discovered by chance in April, 2018.
The study and contextualisation in this work of the Cañaveral de León stele constitutes a significant contribution to the interpretation of the sculpture in Iberian late prehistory.