Past anthropization and historical impacts in a decorated cave: a cross analysis of the La Mouthe Cave walls (Dordogne, France) Anthropisation passée et impacts historiques en grotte ornée : une lecture croisée des parois de la grotte de la Mouthe (Dordogne, France)
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30 décembre 2023
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integrative approach anthropic traces morphogenesis taphonomy geomorphology La Mouthe cave wall mappingCiter ce document
Eric Robert et al., « Anthropisation passée et impacts historiques en grotte ornée : une lecture croisée des parois de la grotte de la Mouthe (Dordogne, France) », HAL SHS (Sciences de l’Homme et de la Société), ID : 10.4000/archeosciences.11920
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e galleries settlements as well as the selection and the use of the cave walls by the ancient societies are all evidence of the prehistoricgroups’ choice inside the subterranean landscape. e traces and marks preserved till our dates are the modified or altered product of these actionsby geological, biological and human processes on the “raw materials” which are the cave walls. La Mouthe cave (Eyzies-de-Tayac-Sireuil, DordogneFrance) is a typical example of the whole set of these processes. It’s an important archaeological site as it provided the proofs of a prehistoric art in1902, 7 years after its discovery. It was also the site of methodological innovations to the transition from the 19th to the 20th century. e morphologicchanges of the karstic network and the outside landscape have conditioned the frequentation and influenced the cave walls decoration, since its genesisduring Paleocene until the development of the numerous speleothems in several decorated rooms during the Holocene. During Middle Palaeolithic andNeolithic periods, this cave is a well-known passageway which recorded the archaeological traces of the repeated visits and uses of prehistoric societies.Our multidisciplinary research program attempts to explore the various phases of the La Mouthe site history over a long period of time. It considers not only the relationship between this cave and Palaeolithic settlements and artworks, but also the karstic network and historical anthropogenic activities. To this end, this method uses an integrative strategy combining geomorphology, taphonomy and palaeolithic marks analysis by exploiting several crossed-referenced plotting. us, we propose an original methodological approach about the wall caves and art and expose the first results obtained by the observation of “la Salle des Taureaux”, one of cave rooms where signs of a structured graphic construction have been found inside the underground space
