From Chauvet to Lascaux
15,000 Years of Cave Art
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6037810 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jean‐michel Geneste (Université de Bordeaux, corresponding author), J-M Geneste |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 45 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 29-40 |
| Publication date | 2017-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Archaeology Ethnology and Anthropology of Eurasia (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1563-0110 • E-ISSN: 1531-832X |
| Publisher | Institute of Archaeology and Ethnography SB RAS (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.17746/1563-0110.2017.45.3.029-040 |
| OpenAlex | W2764124189 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
The earliest art of Western Europe was evolving together with the Homo sapiens population of hunter-gatherers in the glacial environment of the northern hemisphere over the entire Upper Paleolithic (36–13 ka BP). The most important rock art sites, such as Altamira and La Garma in Spain, and Lascaux, Niaux, Cussac, and Chauvet in France, are relevant to the socio-cultural behavior and needs of anatomically modern humans. In this paper, we intend to identify certain changes in the symbolic language, in the ways animals are rendered, and in the layout of artistic space over 15,000 years separating the two key rock art galleries with the best preserved representations: Chauvet (36 ka BP) and Lascaux (21 ka BP). Chauvet, discovered in 1994, is located in the Ardèche Valley near the Mediterranean coast. In this large cave, numerous new kinds of Upper Paleolithic rock art were documented, spanning two distinct occupation periods between 37,000–30,000 years ago. The early stage is the Aurignacian with black zoomorphic paintings, dating to 37,000–33,500 BP. Lascaux, discovered in 1940, is situated in the Vézère Valley, 120 km away from the Atlantic coast, among a large cluster of rupestral art sites in caves and rock shelters. Today, the cave is closed for the public because intense tourist activities over many years from its discovery until 1963 have disrupted the microclimate of the cave and endangered the paintings
Archaeology · Art · Art history · Aurignacian · Cave · Cave painting · Geography · Homo sapiens · Painting · Population · Rock art · Sculpture · Upper Paleolithic · Archaeological and Geological Studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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On the Methodology of Studying Palimpsests in Rock Art
| Citations per year | 0.71 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2019 - 2025 (7) |
| Highly cited | No |