Objects Deposited in the Wall Cracks of the Gargas Caves (Hautes-Pyrénées, France): Analysis and Contextualization
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20 juin 2023
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Magali Peyroux, « Objects Deposited in the Wall Cracks of the Gargas Caves (Hautes-Pyrénées, France): Analysis and Contextualization », Palethnologie, ID : 10.4000/palethnologie.2354
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Gargas is famous for its painted hands and figurative parietal art, which is classically attributed to the Gravettian. The caves also contain numerous deposits of objects in the walls (identified in this site in 1991 by J. Clottes, who sampled one in the Lower Cave and had it dated to 26 860 ± 460 BP). In the context of my Doctoral research on such parietal acts in the decorated caves of the Upper Paleolithic, I conducted a study of these deposits (figure) at the site of Gargas (Lower Cave an...