De l’iconographie d’un art rupestre à son interpretation anthropologique
Author(s)
Sauvet, Georges
Layton, Robert
Lenssen-Erz, Tilman
López-Montalvo, Esther
Tacon, Paul
Wlodarczyk, André
Griffith University Author(s)
Year published
2012
Metadata
Show full item recordAbstract
We examine the hypothesis according to which the iconographic structure of Rock Art differs significantly, in terms of frequencies of the animal motifs and distribution among sites, as a function of the socio-economic organization and of the type of beliefs. African, Australian and European data coming from hunter-gatherer and pastoralist societies will be used. The situation of Palaeolithic Rock Art in Western Europe will be particularly discussed as well as the possibility of correlating the structure of Rock Art with a totemic organization or with shamanic practices.We examine the hypothesis according to which the iconographic structure of Rock Art differs significantly, in terms of frequencies of the animal motifs and distribution among sites, as a function of the socio-economic organization and of the type of beliefs. African, Australian and European data coming from hunter-gatherer and pastoralist societies will be used. The situation of Palaeolithic Rock Art in Western Europe will be particularly discussed as well as the possibility of correlating the structure of Rock Art with a totemic organization or with shamanic practices.
View less >
View less >
Conference Title
L’art pléistocène dans le monde / Pleistocene art of the world / Arte pleistoceno en el mundo, Actes du Congrès IFRAO, Tarascon-sur-Ariège, septembre 2010
Subject
Archaeology of Asia, Africa and the Americas
Archaeology of Europe, the Mediterranean and the Levant
Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Archaeology