An approach to Palaeolithic networks: The question of symbolic territories and their interpretation through Magdalenian art

Fuentes, Oscar; Lucas, Claire; Robert, Éric

doi:10.1016/j.quaint.2017.12.017

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“…Despite uncertainty on the chronology of the figures, and accepting indeed that it cannot be stated whether all of the five zoomorphic figures at the Romito site were produced in a short period or over a longer period of time, it is however clear that the figures were all engraved within the same stylistic-cultural tradition. These figures form a palimpsest, whose geographical and chronological limits are not of the 'Mediterranean artistic province' as defined by Graziosi (1968;1973), but whose definitions are possibly more fluid and variable, encompassing the territories from the Iberian peninsula to Azerbaijan and from Egypt up to Belgium, reflecting a wide scale system of human mobility, as highlighted in some recent publications (see: Ruiz-Redondo 2016; Fuentes 2017; Fuentes et al 2019).…”

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“…These figures form a palimpsest, whose geographical and chronological limits are not of the ‘Mediterranean artistic province’ as defined by Graziosi (1968; 1973), but whose definitions are possibly more fluid and variable, encompassing the territories from the Iberian peninsula to Azerbaijan and from Egypt up to Belgium, reflecting a wide scale system of human mobility, as highlighted in some recent publications (see: Ruiz‐Redondo 2016; Fuentes 2017; Fuentes et al . 2019).…”

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confidence: 99%

“…However, new studies at the beginning of the twenty-first century cast doubt on Graziosi's theory by demonstrating a more complex and richer tradition for Palaeolithic rock art in Europe and the regions surrounding the Mediterranean Sea, one where it was not possible to define a limited artistic area (d'Errico and Possenti 1999;Villaverde 2005;Bicho et al 2007;Huyge et al 2011;Sigari 2013). More recent publications have attempted to establish a social dimension to Magdalenian rock art, looking into the existence of possible Palaeolithic networks, the movement of people, and revealing wider regions for shared symbology (Ruiz-Redondo 2016; Fuentes 2017; Fuentes et al 2019;Ruiz-Redondo et al 2019).…”

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“…More recent publications have attempted to establish a social dimension to Magdalenian rock art, looking into the existence of possible Palaeolithic networks, the movement of people, and revealing wider regions for shared symbology (Ruiz‐Redondo 2016; Fuentes 2017; Fuentes et al . 2019; Ruiz‐Redondo et al . 2019).…”

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Review of the Animal Figures in the Palaeolithic Rock Art of the Romito Shelter. New Discoveries, New Data and New Perspectives

Sigari

2020

Oxford J Archaeology

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This paper presents the results of a recent systematic review of the zoomorphic figures of the Romito shelter, a key site for Upper Palaeolithic rock art and one of the best-preserved in Europe. The research led to the discovery of two new animal figures and reexamines the chronology of the rock art evidence and the chrono-stylistic data. The zoomorphic figures are discussed within the wider chrono-cultural frame of Magdalenian figurative productions, casting new light on the Palaeolithic rock art phenomenon of southern Italy. This seems to go beyond the fixed limits of the 'Mediterranean artistic province', being part of the bigger contemporary picture of the Magdalenian cultures and extended over a broader territory. DARIO SIGARI

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Review of the Animal Figures in the Palaeolithic Rock Art of the Romito Shelter. New Discoveries, New Data and New Perspectives

Sigari

2020

Oxford J Archaeology

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“…Some specialists call these exchange networks ‘symbolic territories’: identification or identities shared by human groups, not necessarily demarcated within visible material borders but following some common cultural norms [ 18 , 19 ]; where the graphic analogies can be distinguished at three geographic levels: local, regional and supra-regional [ 20 , 21 ]. In our case, we consider that this term -symbolic territories- could conceal greater complexity in the case of hunter-gatherer societies.…”

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Redefining shared symbolic networks during the Gravettian in Western Europe: New data from the rock art findings in Aitzbitarte caves (Northern Spain)

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The renewal of the archaeological record, mainly through the discovery of unpublished sites, provides information that sometimes qualifies or even reformulates previous approaches. One of the latter cases is represented by the three new decorated caves found in 2015 in Aitzbitarte Hill. Their exhaustive study shows the presence of engraved animals, mainly bison, with formal characteristics unknown so far in the Palaeolithic art of the northern Iberian Peninsula. However, parallels are located in caves in southern France such as Gargas, Cussac, Roucadour or Cosquer. All of them share very specific graphic conventions that correspond to human occupations assigned basically to the Gravettian cultural complex. The new discovery implies the need to reformulate the iconographic exchange networks currently accepted, as well as their correspondence with other elements of the material culture at the same sites. Thus, we have carried out a multiproxy approach based in statistical analysis. The updated data reveals a greater complexity in artistic expression during the Gravettian that had not been considered so far, and also challenges the traditional isolation that had been granted to Cantabrian symbolic expressions during pre-Magdalenian times.

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Regional Reponses to Global Climate Change: Exploring Anthropomorphic Depictions in Rock and Mobiliary Art Expressions from the Kimberley and Europe During the Late and Terminal Pleistocene

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2024

Interdisciplinary Contributions to Archaeology

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Northern Australia and particularly the Kimberley and Arnhem Land regions are well known for the intensive production of figurative anthropomorphs as a dominant theme by the terminal Pleistocene. Ongoing analysis and dating places the archaeological efflorescence of individual human figures and grouped scenes, often with extraordinary detail in the depictions of accoutrements, weaponry, and personal ornamentation, subsequent to the LGM (MIS 2) and across the Pleistocene-Holocene transition. In this chapter, we argue that the intensive production of human figures – in contrast to preceding millennia of predominantly figurative animal motifs – was a cultural response to ongoing loss of territory with sea level rise (and especially on the shallow continental shelves of the north), greater identity marking and emerging regionalism in northern Australia starting between 18–12 ka. While the impacts and climate details of MIS 3 and 2 were clearly different in the northern hemisphere, we believe there are complementary trajectories in Western Eurasian art bodies, which equally display regional and interregional patterns during approximately the same time period in both parietal and mobiliary art. We explore whether global drivers associated with glacio-eustatic trends, the loss of land through inundation and the emergence and subsequent relaxation of glacial refugia, might be implicated in the enhancement of anthropomorphic assemblages located on opposite sides of the world.

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An approach to Palaeolithic networks: The question of symbolic territories and their interpretation through Magdalenian art

Cited by 23 publications

References 19 publications

Review of the Animal Figures in the Palaeolithic Rock Art of the Romito Shelter. New Discoveries, New Data and New Perspectives

Review of the Animal Figures in the Palaeolithic Rock Art of the Romito Shelter. New Discoveries, New Data and New Perspectives

Redefining shared symbolic networks during the Gravettian in Western Europe: New data from the rock art findings in Aitzbitarte caves (Northern Spain)

Regional Reponses to Global Climate Change: Exploring Anthropomorphic Depictions in Rock and Mobiliary Art Expressions from the Kimberley and Europe During the Late and Terminal Pleistocene

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