CAVE ART - PASCAL GOETGHELUCK Photographe

CAVE ART
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TEXT Pedro LIMA
The Origins of Mind.
For 40 000 years, men have carved, sculpted and painted the rocks everywhere
in the world...
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©Ministère Français de la Culture
©DRAC Rhône-Alpes
In front of the painted ibexes
Negative hand. Cosquer cave. Lascaux. Cave painting in the
and bisons inside the Black
Marseilles. France. © Ministère hall of Bulls.
room in Niaux. Prehistoric men Français de la Culture.
used the faint light coming
from grease lamps
(reconstitution).
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CHAUVET cavern. Big panel of Lascaux cave. An auroch
the Horses. © DRAC
which corresponds to the
Rhône-Alpes.
constellation of the Bull
according to Chantal
Jègues-Wolkiewiez’s
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Lascaux cave. An auroch
which corresponds to the
constellation of the Lion
according to Chantal Jègues’s
calculations
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Lascaux. According to Chantal
Jègues’s theory, the upside
down horse symbolizes the
setting sun in the bottom of
the cave.
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Chantal Jègues-Wolkiewiez’s
drawing the outlines of
aurochs on a map of the
corresponding constellations.
Lascaux cave. Unicorn and
Capricorn constellation scaled
up according to Chantal
Jégues-Wolkiewiez’s works
Lascaux cave. Auroch drawn
over the constellation of the
Bull according to Chantal
Jègues-Wolkiewiez’s studies.
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Lascaux cave. Auroch set in
comparison with the
constellation of the Lion
according to Chantal
Jègues-Wolkiewiez’s studies.
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In the Black Room in Niaux
(Ariège, France), Jean Clottes
lights up a grease lamp to
reveal a charcoal-drawn bison
on the wall.
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In the Black Room in Niaux
(Ariège, France), Jean Clottes
lights up a grease lamp to
reveal a charcoal-drawn bison
on the wall.
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One of the bisons in the Black One of the panels in the Black
Room inside the Niaux Cavern. room of the Niaux cavern,
Magdalenian period (one of the Magdalenian period.
dozens of periods dividing
Prehistory).
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One of the panels in the Black Through pictorial creation, the
room of the Niaux cavern,
shaman became literally
Magdalenian period.
together as one with the rock
and the supernatural world
beyond it.(reconstitution)
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©Jean Clottes
Through pictorial creation, the
shaman became literally
together as one with the rock
and the supernatural world
beyond it.(reconstitution).
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©Jean Clottes
« Positive hands » or Hand
Stencils were made by directly
applying the palms of the
hands to the
rock.(reconstitution).
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©DR
Shamans considered caves as
gates to the supernatural
world, fraught with feminine
symbolism.
This little ibex in the Black
Red snake-like shape in the
Room is one of the wonders of Llonin cavern, Spain. © Jean
the Niaux cave . The zigzag
Clottes.
shape of its horn recalls the
second stage of shamanic
trance.
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©Jim Keyser
©DR
The figure next to the dying
antelope is that of a shaman
half transmogrified in an
antelope. It is a metaphor for
the phenomenon of trance.
Natal region, Drakensberg,
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South Africa. © Jean Clottes.
©Pedro Lima
An artist?s representation of
an unidentified engraving in
the cave of the Three
Brothers(Montesquieu-Avantès
, Ariège, France) known as the
little wizard with the musical
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Bow.
©DRAC Rhône-Alpes
The little wizard in the Three
Brothers Cave as reported b y
H.Breuil.
Montesquieu-Avantès, Ariège,
France.
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©DRAC Rhône-Alpes
Jean Clottes next to American
Indian cave
paintings.(she-who-watches)
Northwest of the USA.
Columbia Valley. Washington
state. © Jim Keyser 034920
The cliff of the cirque d’Estre,
France. The way to the
Chauvet cave... © Pedro Lima
Large panel of Lions. Chauvet
cave. © DRAC Rhône-Alpes.
Painted bear. Chauvet cave. ©
DRAC Rhône-Alpes.
Jean Clottes on the left with
David Coulson and Alec
Campbell. Carvings from the
Aïr region in Niger.
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©DRAC Rhône-Alpes
Engraved horse. Chauvet’s
cave. © DRAC Rhône-Alpes.
©DRAC Rhône-Alpes
Engraved rhinoceros.
Chauvet’s cave. © DRAC
Rhône-Alpes.
©DRAC Rhône-Alpes
Painted buffalo. Chauvet’s
cave. © DRAC Rhône-Alpes.
©DRAC Rhône-Alpes
Painted lioness. Chauvet’s
cave. © DRAC Rhône-Alpes.
©Ministère Français de la Culture
Aerial view of the Calanques in
Marseille, France. Cosquer
cave. France. © Ministère
Français de la Culture.
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Underwater topographic
plotting of the Cosquer cave,
France. © Ministère Français
de la Culture.
Reading of the engravings
through tangential lighting by
Jean Courtin in the Cosquer
cave, France. © Ministère
Français de la Culture.
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Painted horse. Cosquer cave. Painted penguin. Cosquer
Marseilles. France. © Ministère cave. Marseilles. France. ©
Français de la Culture.
Ministère Français de la
Culture.
Painted horses. Cosquer cave. Half-immersed painted horses.
Marseilles. France. © Ministère Cosquer cave. Marseilles.
Français de la Culture.
France. © Ministère Français
de la Culture.
Painted stag. Cosquer cave.
25,000 years old engravings of An engraving of a bull in the
Marseilles. France. © Ministère Ibex in Foz-Coa, Portugal. ©
?Valley of Wonders?, France
Français de la Culture.
François Gilson.
dating from the Bronze Age. ©
François Gilson.
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©Ministère Français de la Culture
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©François Gilson
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Painted seal. Cosquer cave.
Marseilles. France. © Ministère
Français de la Culture.
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©François Gilson
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©François Gilson
©François Gilson
Sun carved in the ?Valley of
Wonders?, France dating from
the Bronz e Age. © François
Gilson.
Archaeologists making
readings in the ?Valley of
Wonders?, France. © François
Gilson.
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©D. Baffier-V.Feruglio/Ministère ©D. Baffier-V.Feruglio/Ministère
A panel in the Chauvet cave,
decorated with dots made by
applying the palms of the
hands. © D.
Baffier-V.Feruglio/Ministère de
la Culture
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At the Tandétron of
Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris,
France, the gas sample is
vacuum-conditioned for
analysis.
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A panel in the Chauvet cave,
decorated with dots made by
applying the palms of the
hands. Interpretation of the
position of the hands. © D.
Baffier-V.Feruglio/Ministère
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de
la Culture
©Ministère Français de la Culture
Topographic plotting technique
is necessary to the searcher’s
work, permitting the discovery
of details invisible to the
naked eye.
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DIn the black room of Niaux
(Ariège, France), Jean Clottes
is studying a bison drawn with
charcoal on the wall.
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Reading of engravings with a
tangential lighting by Jean
Courtin in the Cosquer cave,
France. © Ministère Français
de la Culture.
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At the Tandétron of
Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris,
France, searchers are able to
date samples collected in the
cave.
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At the Tandétron of
Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris,
France, a few charcoal
samples collected in the
Chauvet cave.
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At the Tandétron of
Gif-sur-Yvette, near Paris,
France, the gas sample is
vacuum-conditioned for
analysis.
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