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Thematic changes in Upper Palaeolithic art: a view from the Grotte Chauvet

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

Jean Clottes*
Affiliation:
CAR, 11 rue du Fourcat, 09000 Foix, France

Abstract

Trustworthy dates on charcoal from the classic European painted caves have given a sharper view of images and their making in the later Palaeolithic. The new Grotte Chauvet has its own original themes, revealing a striking and an unexpected Aurignacian art with — again — dates from charcoal in which one can have confidence.

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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1996

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