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Palaeolithic Rock Art of Roucadour Cave (France)
Project funded by own resources
Project title Palaeolithic Rock Art of Roucadour Cave (France)
Principal Investigator(s) Le Tensorer, Jean-Marie
Lorblanchet, Michel
Project Members Pümpin, Christine
Braun, Ingmar
Jagher, Reto
Organisation / Research unit Departement Umweltwissenschaften / Urgeschichte (Le Tensorer)
Project start 01.07.2012
Probable end 31.12.2022
Status Completed
Abstract

The Upper Palaeolithic engravings of Roucadour cave were discovered by local speleologists in 1962. In 1964-1966 abbé A. Glory conducted a first survey of the artworks. His sudden death in 1966 left his investigations uncompleted and subsequent lawsuits closed the cave for further investigations until 2002.

The Roucadour engravings and paintings represent a unique corpus of Aurignacian art in Europe not only by its richness but especially by the short period the drawings were executed. In fact there is no evidence of younger additions to the original corpus permitting a rare insight into the spiritual world of early Upper Palaeolithic man. It is not only the intended simplification of animal representations but also the big number of elaborated and complex symbols that reflect the rich spiritual concepts of these hunters and gatherers.

A detailed comparison between the first tracings (mostly unpublished) made by the abbé Glory in 1965-1966 and a new comprehensive documentation, will make it possible to take stock of the evolution in approaches to Palaeolithic parietal art over the course of the last 40 years.

Financed by Other funds

Published results ()

  ID Autor(en) Titel ISSN / ISBN Erschienen in Art der Publikation
101834  Lorblanchet, Michel; Delluc, Brigitte & Gilles; Le Tensorer, Jean-Marie; Bariviera, Guy; Bournazel, Josseline  Roucadour quarante ans plus tard    Bulletin préhistoire du Sud-Ouest  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 
103662  Le Tensorer, Jean-Marie  Exemples du rôle de la paroi dans l'art paléolithique : La Mouthe et Roucadour    Archéologie neuchâteloise  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 
102505  Le Tensorer, Jean-Marie  L'image avant l'image: réflexion sur le colloque  0003-5521  L'anthropologie  Publication: JournalArticle (Originalarbeit in einer wissenschaftlichen Zeitschrift) 

Cooperations ()

  ID Kreditinhaber Kooperationspartner Institution Laufzeit - von Laufzeit - bis
2839220  Le Tensorer, Jean-Marie  Lorblanchet, Michel, Maître de recherche  Université de Toulouse  01.01.2002  31.12.2018 
   

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