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Palaeolithic Parietal Art and its Topographical Context.

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1991
Our purpose is to examine the hypothesis that Palaeolithic parietal image sites in south-west Europe model or map a specific area of the terrain around them in so far as that terrain was useful to the people who made the images. So far as we are aware the hypothesis has not received wide attention (Eastham 1979; Kehoe 1990).
null Michael, Anne Eastham
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Portable and Parietal Art of Kamyana Mohyla, Ukraine

2023
Kamyana Mohyla is Ukraine's largest and most prominent rock art complex and is located at least one thousand kilometers from other comparable rock art sites. Situated on the western edge of the Eurasian Steppe belt, the site shows prehistoric imagery from several different contexts-some of its engravings are considered in the frame of European rock art,
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Parietal art discovered at Arene Candide Cave (Liguria, Italy)

Antiquity, 2008
The 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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The parietal art of the Late Magdalenian

Antiquity, 1990
While lively debate has gone on about the meaning and function of Palaeolithic parietal art, the intractable and essential questions of its dating have been less in the foreground. With Leroi-Gourhan's interpretations goes his identification of styles and their chronology, published in 1965.
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Iconographic changes through time in Upper Paleolithic parietal art

2021
Art 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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Water Mythology and the distribution of Palaeolithic Parietal Art

Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society, 1978
In recent years there has been a refreshing move away from simplistic interpretations of Palaeolithic art: few scholars still adhere to the view of ‘art for art's sake’ or ‘totemism’, although many are reluctant to abandon the formerly dominant theory of ‘hunting magic’.
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