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Revisiting the Parietal Art of Wonderwerk Cave, South Africa
African Archaeological Review, 2016Seen by all who visit Wonderwerk Cave, the rock paintings that adorn its walls have attracted less attention than many other aspects of the site. The paper gives a brief account of their history and significance and of factors that have constrained their study.
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Iconographic changes through time in Upper Paleolithic parietal art
2021Art traditions reflect beliefs, practices, customs and unconscious factors. If it is relatively easy to study these features in historic art traditions, the same is not true for prehistoric times. Archaeology has to rely on multidisciplinary approaches in order to counterbalance the deficiencies in documentation.
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Parietal art discovered at Arene Candide Cave (Liguria, Italy)
Antiquity, 2008The authors have discovered small oval panels of parallel lines in the famous Ligurian cave of Arene Candide, and show that it must be art of the Epigravettian period, c. 11-10000bp (uncalibrated).
MUSSI, Margherita, P. Bahn, R. Maggi
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Agency, art and altered consciousness: a motif in French (Quercy) Upper Palaeolithic parietal art
Antiquity, 1997Is the meaning of prehistoric art beyond recovery — especially the meaning of early art in deep caves, a remote and strange location which itself suggests some out-of-the-ordinary purpose? David Lewis-Williams has been extending his explorations of meaning in later southern African rock-art to the famous enigma of the European Palaeolithic, here in the
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Palaeolithic Mammalian Faunas and Parietal art in Cantabria: A Comment on Freeman
American Antiquity, 1974AbstractThe economic basis of the Cantabrian Upper Palaeolithic as reported by L. G. Freeman is compared with the coeval parietal art, and a motivational basis for the latter suggested.
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Antiquity, 2011
The authors deconstruct the basis for dating the Palaeolithic cave paintings of France and find it wanting. Only five per cent are directly dated and the remainder belong to a stylistic framework that has grown organically, and with much circularity, as new paintings were brought to light.
Genevieve von Petzinger, April Nowell
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The authors deconstruct the basis for dating the Palaeolithic cave paintings of France and find it wanting. Only five per cent are directly dated and the remainder belong to a stylistic framework that has grown organically, and with much circularity, as new paintings were brought to light.
Genevieve von Petzinger, April Nowell
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The Horse in the Palaeolithic Parietal Art of the Quercy: Outline of a Stylistic Study
2007The discovery of the engravings at Church Hole brings numerous and precious newelements that renew our knowledge of Palaeolithic parietal art. In particular, it poses the problem of styles in the closing phase of the Palaeolithic. As a comparison, I will present here an outline of the evolution of styles in the Palaeolithic parietal art of the Quercy ...
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New hominid remains associated with gravettian parietal art (Les Garennes, Vilhonneur, France)
Journal of Human Evolution, 2007A remarkable discovery in France raises anew the question of the relationship between parietal art and funerary practices. France is rich in Gravettian decorated caves, but human remains from this period (28e21 000 years BP) are very rare (Henry-Gambier, 2002).
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Galería Arqueológica Nacional: la evolución del Arte Parietal
2023En 1875, unos años antes de la inauguración del Museo Arqueológico Nacional, un hombre llamado Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola y su hija María descubren la cueva de Altamira (Santillana del Mar, Cantabria). Debido al increíble grado de conservación de las imágenes, científicos y estudiosos de la época entran en estado de alerta.
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Evolutionary Anthropology: Issues, News, and Reviews, 2023
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