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Palaeolithic Parietal Art and its Topographical Context

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2014

Michael  and
Anne Eastham
Michael
Affiliation:
Holt, Foxholes Rd, Horwich, Bolton BL6 6AP
Anne Eastham
Affiliation:
Holt, Foxholes Rd, Horwich, Bolton BL6 6AP
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Our purpose is to examine the hypothesis that Palaeolithic parietal image sites in south-west Europe model or map a specific area of the terrain around them in so far as that terrain was useful to the people who made the images. So far as we are aware the hypothesis has not received wide attention (Eastham 1979; Kehoe 1990). Maps were made by some hunter-gatherer peoples. There are Amerindian maps (Brody 1981; Leacock 1969), and maps have been used as an explanation of some Australian parietal figures (Mountford 1956; 1961). There has been, however, little systematic application of the hypothesis to Palaeolithic images.

The images under discussion are the recognizable representations of animals painted, engraved or carved on the walls, floors and roofs of caves and rock shelters during the last glaciation. They are recognizable because the marks of which they are composed make redundant reference to known species. They may be accompanied by others which can be interpreted as representations of human beings and ambiguous configurations of animals.

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Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society , Volume 57 , Issue 1 , 1991 , pp. 115 - 128
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Copyright © The Prehistoric Society 1991

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