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The Upper Palaeolithic rock art in the Tagus Valley Rock Art Complex (context, style and chronology) [PDF]

open access: yes, 2022
Esta dissertação apresenta um quadro metodológico de estudo das gravuras rupestres do Vale do Ocreza, que pertence ao Complexo de Arte Rupestre do Tejo de Portugal.
Δανελάτος, Διονύσιος
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A Swan on the Water? Technical Execution and Graphic Strategy in an Epigravettian Portable Art Object from Grotta Paglicci

open access: yesHeritage
Palaeolithic engraved portable art provides a valuable record for investigating the technical aspects of Palaeolithic graphic production. In this study, we analyse an engraved portable art object from the Epigravettian sequence of Grotta Paglicci ...
Simona Arrighi   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Prima e al di là dell’arte: origine dei segni e delle figurazioni nell’arte paleolitica

open access: yesAisthesis, 2013
Figurative experience, as a codified system of images, emerges in Europe about 40.000 years ago. Together with the development of a figurative system, Homo sapiens acquired his modern cognitive architecture: an entirely articulated language, as well ...
Fabio Martini
doaj   +3 more sources

Study of the paleolithic parietal art from the archaeological perspective: old ghosts / new approaches

open access: yesEl Futuro del Pasado, 2010
This paper aims to analyse the parietal palaeolithic graphic designs from an archaeological perspective, leaving aside the aesthetic ties of traditional historiography.
Clara Hernando Álvarez
doaj  

L’art pariétal, objet virtuel de recherche ?

open access: yesLes Nouvelles de l’Archéologie, 2019
Digital technologies are applied in the study of Palaeolithic decorated caves and shelters with increasing success because they offer a 3D rendering of rock walls, visually attractive and accessible to all. The 3D associated with image processing is also
Carole Fritz, Gilles Tosello
doaj   +1 more source

The European Upper Palaeolithic.

open access: yes, 2014
Today, five broad stages can be discerned over the 35 000 years of the European Upper Palaeolithic; the Initial, Early, Mid, Late and Terminal Upper Palaeolithic. Although it is unclear whether some assemblages of the Initial Upper Palaeolithic were made
Pettitt, P.
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The challenge of the abstract mind: symbols, signs and notational systems in European prehistory

open access: yesDocumenta Praehistorica, 2005
Since the earliest manifestations of symbolic activity in modern humans (Homo sapiens sapiens) in the Upper Palaeolithic, there is evidence for two independent cognitive procedures, for the production of representational images (naturalistic pictures or ...
Harald Haarmann
doaj   +1 more source

Drawing Animals in the Paleolithic: The Effect of Perspective and Abbreviation on Animal Recognition and Aesthetic Appreciation

open access: yesTopics in Cognitive Science, Volume 18, Issue 2, April 2026.
Abstract The majority of Pleistocene figurative cave art in Western Europe consists of line drawings depicting large herbivores from the side view, and outlines were sometimes abbreviated to the head‐neck‐dorsal line. It is often assumed that the side view was used because it facilitates animal recognition compared to other views, and that abbreviated ...
Murillo Pagnotta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

A contextual approach to the study of faunal assemblages from Lower and Middle Palaeolithic sites in the UK

open access: yes, 2010
This thesis represents a site-specific, holistic analysis of faunal assemblage formation at four key Palaeolithic sites (Boxgrove, Swanscombe, Hoxne and Lynford).
Smith, G.M.
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Technologie 3D et relevé d’art pariétal : une application inédite dans la grotte de Marsoulas

open access: yesIn Situ, 2012
The third dimension always constitutes a major difficulty in the study of the Palaeolithic cave art. At the Marsoulas cave (Haute-Garonne), a 3D scan operation was undertaken in keeping with various constraints in terms of time and space which the site ...
Carole Fritz   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

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