Leslie Van Gelder
Biographic Data
| ID | 188140 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leslie Van Gelder |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leslie |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Gelder |
| SIGNATURE | VAN GELDER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Walden University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 68 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Who Holds Your Light?: Revealing Relationships Through a Forensic Approach to Upper Paleolithic Cave Art
Entanglements: The Role of Finger Flutings in the Study of the Lived Lives of Upper Paleolithic Peoples
Evidence of Collaboration Among Art-Makers in Twelve Upper Palaeolithic Caves
The Role of Children in the Creation of Finger Flutings in Koonalda Cave, South Australia
Koonalda Cave in South Australia has long been known for having the world's largest collection of finger flutings – lines drawn with fingers in the soft surfaces of cave ceilings and walls. Until recently no research had been done to attempt to distinguish individuals or determine unique identities among the finger fluters. A preliminary study conducted in 2014 of three different panels within the ‘Art Passage’ section of the cave revealed multip…
Counting the Children: The Role of Children in the Production of Finger Flutings in Four U pper P alaeolithic Caves
Children and young adults are believed to have represented up to 40 per cent of U pper P alaeolithic populations, yet little is known of their engagement in deep caves besides evidence of their hand and footprints. In this study we examine finger flutings, lines drawn with fingers in soft surfaces, in 12 F ranco‐ C antabrian U pper P alaeolithic caves to look for forensic evidence of unique individuals. We find evidence of children as finger flut…
Paleolithic Finger Flutings and the Question of Writing
Discussions of Paleolithic Cave Art rarely, if ever, explore the possibilities of evidence of writing and yet finger flutings (lines made by fingers in soft moonmilch or clay on cave walls and ceilings) raise significant questions as to what is writing and what internal structures would need to be evident within fluted panels to constitute writing. In this paper, the author shares findings from the French caves of Rouffignac and Gargas, and nine …
New Methods and Approaches in the Study of Finger Flutings
Drawing on ten years of the author and her late research partner, Kevin s Sharpe s, development of methodologies for approaching the study of finger flutings, this paper focuses on the manner in which one can determine distinct individual cave artists through a confluence of rich data sources which examines finger width, profiles, handedness, applications of Manning s gender studies to determine sex, depth of fluting, height, and the cataloging o…
Méthodes et approches nouvelles pour l’étude des tracés digités
Dix ans à la grotte de Rouffignac: Rapport collectif sur les découvertes d’une décennie de recherche sur les tracés digités
On connaît des tracés digités en contexte souterrain dans tout le sud-ouest de l’Europe, le sud de l’Australie et la Nouvelle‐Guinée. Ils furent vraisemblablement réalisés sur une période de temps considérable au cours du Paléolithique supérieur. Environ 500 m2 de ces tracés existent dans la grotte de Rouffignac. Grâce à leur nombre, leur variété et leur état de conservation, Rouffignac est devenu un site de grande importance pour une recherche a…
Ten Years in Rouffignac Cave: A Collective Report on Findings from a Decade of Finger Flutings Research
This year 2010 marks the tenth year of a directed study on Finger Flutings in Rouffignac Cave. This paper chronicles some of the key milestones and findings. Further, it looks to continued research in both Rouffignac Cave and other potential sites to refine methodologies and continue to develop answerable research questions which can be and add to a growing body of knowledge with regard to Upper Paleolithic Cave Art and the individuals who create…
Paleolithic finger flutings as efficient communication: Applying Zipf's Law to two panels in Rouffignac Cave, France
Two fluted panels in Rouffignac Cave, France, appear highly ordered as opposed to other panels that appear haphazardly made. Is it possible to objectively establish that an intention to communicate thoughts and ideas lay behind the fluting of the two “ordered” panels? To help answer this, we apply a concept from communications theory called Zipf's Law, which can establish whether data represent “efficient communication” or are random. Applying th…
Women and Girls as Upper Palaeolithic Cave ‘Artists’: Deciphering the Sexes of Finger Fluters in Rouffignac Cave
Popular and scholarly literature usually assumes that prehistoric artists were adult men. We show in other publications that young children from the Palaeolithic fluted in Rouffignac Cave, France, and hence the incorrectness at least here of the usual assumption. Our research also shows that females as well as males fluted in Rouffignac. Our methods for demonstrating this are forensic based on physiological research of relative finger lengths of …
The Study of Finger Flutings
Archaeologists have usually glossed over parietal finger flutings, especially non-figurative and non-symbolic lines. This article develops a nomenclature and defines four forms to provide a descriptive structure from which to build analyses. It then develops methods for such investigations, using experiments and studies of physiology to derive information about the fluters from the flutings. The methods are applied to each of the four forms of fl…
Evidence for cave marking by Palaeolithic children
Amongst the numerous images found on the walls of Palaeolithic caves, fluted lines, made by fingers dragged through a skin of wet clay remain some of the most intriguing. In their study of images at Rouffignac, the authors undertook experiments with a range of modern subjects who replicated the flutings with their hands. Comparing the dimensions of the experimental flutings with the originals, they conclude that the patterns on the roof of Chambe…
At the Confluence of Paradox: Implicit Religion and the Wild
Using storied memoir as her source, the author describes the paradoxical nature of contemporary culture’s relationship to wilderness and the wild. She defines three separate entities: wilderness, wildlands, and the wild, and discusses their implications in the way in which we view self, other, and the natural world
Evidence for cave marking by Palaeolithic children
Amongst the numerous images found on the walls of Palaeolithic caves, fluted lines, made by fingers dragged through a skin of wet clay remain some of the most intriguing. In their study of images at Rouffignac, the authors undertook experiments with a range of modern subjects who replicated the flutings with their hands. Comparing the dimensions of the experimental flutings with the originals, they conclude that the patterns on the roof of Chambe…
Women and Girls as Upper Palaeolithic Cave ‘Artists’: Deciphering the Sexes of Finger Fluters in Rouffignac Cave
Popular and scholarly literature usually assumes that prehistoric artists were adult men. We show in other publications that young children from the Palaeolithic fluted in Rouffignac Cave, France, and hence the incorrectness at least here of the usual assumption. Our research also shows that females as well as males fluted in Rouffignac. Our methods for demonstrating this are forensic based on physiological research of relative finger lengths of …
Counting the Children: The Role of Children in the Production of Finger Flutings in Four U pper P alaeolithic Caves
Children and young adults are believed to have represented up to 40 per cent of U pper P alaeolithic populations, yet little is known of their engagement in deep caves besides evidence of their hand and footprints. In this study we examine finger flutings, lines drawn with fingers in soft surfaces, in 12 F ranco‐ C antabrian U pper P alaeolithic caves to look for forensic evidence of unique individuals. We find evidence of children as finger flut…
The Study of Finger Flutings
Archaeologists have usually glossed over parietal finger flutings, especially non-figurative and non-symbolic lines. This article develops a nomenclature and defines four forms to provide a descriptive structure from which to build analyses. It then develops methods for such investigations, using experiments and studies of physiology to derive information about the fluters from the flutings. The methods are applied to each of the four forms of fl…
Entanglements: The Role of Finger Flutings in the Study of the Lived Lives of Upper Paleolithic Peoples
Ten Years in Rouffignac Cave: A Collective Report on Findings from a Decade of Finger Flutings Research
This year 2010 marks the tenth year of a directed study on Finger Flutings in Rouffignac Cave. This paper chronicles some of the key milestones and findings. Further, it looks to continued research in both Rouffignac Cave and other potential sites to refine methodologies and continue to develop answerable research questions which can be and add to a growing body of knowledge with regard to Upper Paleolithic Cave Art and the individuals who create…
At the Confluence of Paradox: Implicit Religion and the Wild
Using storied memoir as her source, the author describes the paradoxical nature of contemporary culture’s relationship to wilderness and the wild. She defines three separate entities: wilderness, wildlands, and the wild, and discusses their implications in the way in which we view self, other, and the natural world
The Study of Finger Flutings
Archaeologists have usually glossed over parietal finger flutings, especially non-figurative and non-symbolic lines. This article develops a nomenclature and defines four forms to provide a descriptive structure from which to build analyses. It then develops methods for such investigations, using experiments and studies of physiology to derive information about the fluters from the flutings. The methods are applied to each of the four forms of fl…
Evidence for cave marking by Palaeolithic children
Amongst the numerous images found on the walls of Palaeolithic caves, fluted lines, made by fingers dragged through a skin of wet clay remain some of the most intriguing. In their study of images at Rouffignac, the authors undertook experiments with a range of modern subjects who replicated the flutings with their hands. Comparing the dimensions of the experimental flutings with the originals, they conclude that the patterns on the roof of Chambe…
Paleolithic finger flutings as efficient communication: Applying Zipf's Law to two panels in Rouffignac Cave, France
Two fluted panels in Rouffignac Cave, France, appear highly ordered as opposed to other panels that appear haphazardly made. Is it possible to objectively establish that an intention to communicate thoughts and ideas lay behind the fluting of the two “ordered” panels? To help answer this, we apply a concept from communications theory called Zipf's Law, which can establish whether data represent “efficient communication” or are random. Applying th…
Women and Girls as Upper Palaeolithic Cave ‘Artists’: Deciphering the Sexes of Finger Fluters in Rouffignac Cave
Popular and scholarly literature usually assumes that prehistoric artists were adult men. We show in other publications that young children from the Palaeolithic fluted in Rouffignac Cave, France, and hence the incorrectness at least here of the usual assumption. Our research also shows that females as well as males fluted in Rouffignac. Our methods for demonstrating this are forensic based on physiological research of relative finger lengths of …
New Methods and Approaches in the Study of Finger Flutings
Drawing on ten years of the author and her late research partner, Kevin s Sharpe s, development of methodologies for approaching the study of finger flutings, this paper focuses on the manner in which one can determine distinct individual cave artists through a confluence of rich data sources which examines finger width, profiles, handedness, applications of Manning s gender studies to determine sex, depth of fluting, height, and the cataloging o…
Méthodes et approches nouvelles pour l’étude des tracés digités
Dix ans à la grotte de Rouffignac: Rapport collectif sur les découvertes d’une décennie de recherche sur les tracés digités
On connaît des tracés digités en contexte souterrain dans tout le sud-ouest de l’Europe, le sud de l’Australie et la Nouvelle‐Guinée. Ils furent vraisemblablement réalisés sur une période de temps considérable au cours du Paléolithique supérieur. Environ 500 m2 de ces tracés existent dans la grotte de Rouffignac. Grâce à leur nombre, leur variété et leur état de conservation, Rouffignac est devenu un site de grande importance pour une recherche a…
Ten Years in Rouffignac Cave: A Collective Report on Findings from a Decade of Finger Flutings Research
This year 2010 marks the tenth year of a directed study on Finger Flutings in Rouffignac Cave. This paper chronicles some of the key milestones and findings. Further, it looks to continued research in both Rouffignac Cave and other potential sites to refine methodologies and continue to develop answerable research questions which can be and add to a growing body of knowledge with regard to Upper Paleolithic Cave Art and the individuals who create…
Paleolithic Finger Flutings and the Question of Writing
Discussions of Paleolithic Cave Art rarely, if ever, explore the possibilities of evidence of writing and yet finger flutings (lines made by fingers in soft moonmilch or clay on cave walls and ceilings) raise significant questions as to what is writing and what internal structures would need to be evident within fluted panels to constitute writing. In this paper, the author shares findings from the French caves of Rouffignac and Gargas, and nine …
The Role of Children in the Creation of Finger Flutings in Koonalda Cave, South Australia
Koonalda Cave in South Australia has long been known for having the world's largest collection of finger flutings – lines drawn with fingers in the soft surfaces of cave ceilings and walls. Until recently no research had been done to attempt to distinguish individuals or determine unique identities among the finger fluters. A preliminary study conducted in 2014 of three different panels within the ‘Art Passage’ section of the cave revealed multip…
Counting the Children: The Role of Children in the Production of Finger Flutings in Four U pper P alaeolithic Caves
Children and young adults are believed to have represented up to 40 per cent of U pper P alaeolithic populations, yet little is known of their engagement in deep caves besides evidence of their hand and footprints. In this study we examine finger flutings, lines drawn with fingers in soft surfaces, in 12 F ranco‐ C antabrian U pper P alaeolithic caves to look for forensic evidence of unique individuals. We find evidence of children as finger flut…
Evidence of Collaboration Among Art-Makers in Twelve Upper Palaeolithic Caves
Who Holds Your Light?: Revealing Relationships Through a Forensic Approach to Upper Paleolithic Cave Art
Entanglements: The Role of Finger Flutings in the Study of the Lived Lives of Upper Paleolithic Peoples
Archaeology (12 works) · Cave (10 works) · History (10 works) · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology (10 works) · Computer Science (7 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (6 works) · Geography (5 works) · Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works)