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Two engraved rock art sites in northeastern Portugal — Fraga dos Fusos (Serra de Nogueira, Bragança) and the Pedra Escrita de Ridevides (Alfândega da Fé) — are examined here as graphic palimpsests and as nodes in transregional networks of the Late Prehistoric period. Both share an incision-based engraving tradition, producing filiform and fusiform (devil's-claw) motifs documented across the region from the Lateglacial onwards. Ridevides presents a complex, essentially undifferentiated palimpsest in which triangular forms and hafted halberds testify to recurrent ritual use from the Azilian to at least the early second millennium BC. Fraga dos Fusos, by contrast, preserves a structured composition combining spear-like lozenge figures and subcircular handled forms interpreted as mirrors or standards, suggesting affinities with the Late Bronze Age warrior-stela phenomenon. Situated on a traditional route across the Bragança plateau, both sites reveal how localised engraving gestures articulated with wider Iberian and Atlantic iconographic systems. Paper presented at the EAA Annual Meeting, August 2026.
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