Research on rock art conducted during the last several decades has shown the skill and knowledge demonstrated by the painters, engravers and sculptors who executed the motifs on rock surfaces and supports. Some motif sets required their creators to acquire a strong graphic command while workmanship techniques have very often proved to be more complex than previously assumed, including for remote periods. It also appears that the motifs have been placed according to specific criteria in connection with spatial orientation or support shape, for instance. The aim of this volume is to question these aesthetic productions with the conceptual tools of art history. How were the techniques used put to the service of the aesthetic project? How can the iconographic study and the stylistic analysis contribute to the understanding of the decorated site? Can we approach the
short time
of the realisation of cave or rock art sets? Is it possible to target regional particularisms? These are some ofthe questions to which current investigation techniques may give some fresh insight.
Edited by:
Marc Groenen,
Marie-Christine Groenen
Imprint: British Archaeological Reports
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Volume: 2787
Dimensions:
Height: 297mm,
Width: 210mm,
Spine: 15mm
Weight: 741g
ISBN: 9781407314464
ISBN 10: 1407314467
Series: British Archaeological Reports International Series
Pages: 226
Publication Date: 13 January 2016
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
,
Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Preface Preface Figurations et defigurations stylistiques des representations humaines paleolithiques : des ideologies sociales en jeu To figure and to disfigure humans: social ideologies at stake Denis Vialou Norme et individualite au Roc-aux-Sorciers (Vienne, France) : approche des mains du registre animalier au travers de la forme Norm and individuality in Roc-aux-Sorciers rock art (Vienne, France): dealing with the hands in the basreliefs of animals through the form Camille Bourdier & Genevieve Pincon, avec la collaboration de Bruno Bosselin Trajectoires iconographiques croisees entre le Roc-aux-Sorciers (Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Vienne) et la Marche (Lussac-les-Chateaux, Vienne) : de la norme a la revendication a travers le traitement des representations humaines Crossing iconographic trajectories between le Roc-aux-Sorciers (Angles-sur-l'Anglin, Vienne) and La Marche (Lussac-les-Chateaux, Vienne) : From norm to identity claim through the treatment of human depiction Oscar Fuentes Apport des analyses elementaires et structurales a l'interpretation des dispositifs parietaux de la grotte d'El Castillo (Cantabrie) Contribution of elemental and structural analysis to the interpretation of painted and drawn compositions of El Castillo cave (Cantabria, Spain) Marc Groenen, Marie-Christine Groenen, Gilles Wallaert, Marie-Paule Delplancke, Jean Dille, Freddy Damblon & Tiriana Segato Des animaux et quelques signes a la Mairie et a l'abri Mege a Teyjat (Dordogne, France) Animals and a few signs in La Mairie Cave and Mege shelter at Teyjat (Dordogne, France) Patrick Paillet & Elena Man-Estier The plaque of Villalba de Almazan (Soria, Spain) and the Palaeolithic art of inner Iberia La plaquette de Villalbade Almazan (Soria, Espagne) et l'art paleolithique de l'interieur de l'Espagne Rodrigo de Balbin Behrmann, Jose-Javier Alcolea-Gonzalez, Enrique Baquedano, Jose Javier Fernandez & Manuel Alcaraz-Castano Le pilier sculpte de la grotte d'Isturitz : l'analyse plastique des figurations The sculpted pillar of the Isturitz Cave: A plastic analysis of the figurations Aude Labarge Le role du support dans la construction des images au sein de l'art paleolithique europeen The role of the support in the construction of the images in the European Palaeolithic art Eric Robert Rock art and landscape of Erongo Region, Namibia L'art rupestre et le paysage de la region d'Erongo, Namibie Alma Mekondjo Nankela Pigments and pigment maps. Some non-destructive approaches to establish relative chronology of a site Pigments et cartes de pigments. De quelques approches non destructrices pour etablir la chronologie relative d'un site Alexey Solodeynikov
Marc Groenen is an art historian and archaeologist. He is a professor of prehistory at the Universite Libre de Bruxelles (Belgium) and works in particular on issues related to Palaeolithic images. Marc and Marie-Christine Groenen have been studying the decorated cave of El Castillo (Spain) since 2003. They are also studying the rock art of the French cave of Pair-non-Pair, in collaboration with Marc Martinez.
