La grotte ornée de Comarque à Sireuil (Dordogne)

Delluc, Brigitte; Delluc, Gilles; Chaline, Jean; Evin, Jacques; Galinat, Bernard; Leroi-Gourhan, Arlette; Mourer‐Chauviré, Cecile; Poulain, Thérèse; Schweingruber, Fritz Hans

doi:10.3406/galip.1981.1666

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“…One of the claws presents cutmarks (Mourer-Chauvir e in Delluc et al, 1981). Cutmarks are also documented on snowy owl long bones from Plantade rockshelter (pers.…”

Section: Imprecise and Mixed Magdalenian Contextsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Hunting fast-moving, low-turnover small game: The status of the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) in the Magdalenian

Laroulandie

2016

Quaternary International

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“…One of the claws presents cutmarks (Mourer-Chauvir e in Delluc et al, 1981). Cutmarks are also documented on snowy owl long bones from Plantade rockshelter (pers.…”

Section: Imprecise and Mixed Magdalenian Contextsmentioning

confidence: 94%

Hunting fast-moving, low-turnover small game: The status of the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) in the Magdalenian

Laroulandie

2016

Quaternary International

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“…Similarly, Bacon et al (2022;fig. 2e), point to a Y-sign on the Commarque horse (France), based on a sketch by Delluc and Delluc (1981). However, both a photograph and an analytical tracing found in the same article by the Dellucs (1981) show that no such Y-sign exists (Fig.…”

Section: Source Criticismmentioning

confidence: 94%

Evaluating the Evidence for Lunar Calendars in Upper Palaeolithic Parietal Art

Nowell,

Bahn,

Le Quellec

2024

CAJ

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In this paper, we examine the lunar calendar interpretation to evaluate whether it is a viable explanation for the production of Upper Palaeolithic parietal art. We consider in detail the history of this approach, focusing on recently published variations on this interpretation. We then discuss the scientific method and whether these recent studies are designed to address the research questions necessary to test a lunar calendar hypothesis. More broadly, we explore challenges related to inferring meaning in art of the deep past, the use of secondary sources and selecting appropriate ethnographic analogies. Finally, we assess claims that the lunar calendar interpretation documents the world's oldest (proto)writing system. We conclude that the lunar calendar interpretation as currently construed suffers from multiple theoretical and methodological weaknesses preventing it from being a viable explanation for the production of Upper Palaeolithic art. We further find that claims following from this interpretation to have discovered the oldest known (proto)writing system are unsubstantiated.

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“…None of these commentators, working only from the isolated shape and form, has discussed the problem of context and use. In the cave of Commarque (Delluc and Delluc 1981), where many vulvas appear opposite a huge carved horse they may be related to the horse in more complex ways than the mere visual similarity of hoof to vulva. I have suggested that the horse is an animal that was often ritually or sacrificially killed, sometimes in a seasonal context.…”

Section: West European Variabilitymentioning

confidence: 99%

The Female Image: A ‘Time-factored’ Symbol. A Study in Style and Aspects of Image Use in the Upper Palaeolithic.

Marshack

1991

Proc. Prehist. Soc.

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The ‘art’ of the early Upper Palaeolithic refers to the images and symbols of the hunters of horse, bison and mammoth during the last European Ice Age that began more than 32,000 years ago. It is therefore interesting that it isnotthe image of the animal that develops in complexity and variability across Ice Age Europe for the next 20,000 or so years, but the image of the female. The image and theconceptof the Ice Age female has perhaps been the subject of more intense emotional debate in the last century than the image of the animal (Ucko 1962; 1969; Clottes and Cerou 1970; LeroiGourhan 1965; Ucko and Rosenfeld 1972; Stoliar 1977–78). The debate continues, both with new finds and new ideas (Rosenfeld 1977; Delporte 1979; Rice 1981; Gamble 1982; Cerda 1983; Guthrie 1984; Praslov 1985; Sonneville-Bordes 1986; Lorblanchet and Welte 1987; Gvozdover 1989; Duhard 1989).

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La grotte ornée de Comarque à Sireuil (Dordogne)

Cited by 14 publications

References 2 publications

Hunting fast-moving, low-turnover small game: The status of the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) in the Magdalenian

Hunting fast-moving, low-turnover small game: The status of the snowy owl (Bubo scandiacus) in the Magdalenian

Evaluating the Evidence for Lunar Calendars in Upper Palaeolithic Parietal Art

The Female Image: A ‘Time-factored’ Symbol. A Study in Style and Aspects of Image Use in the Upper Palaeolithic.

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