Prehistoric Art as Prehistoric Culture

Studies in Honour of Professor Rodrigo de Balbín-Behrmann

Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez, Paul Bahn, Primitiva Bueno-Ramírez, Paul G. Bahn

• Publisher: Archaeopress
• Year: 2015
• Print ISBN: 9781784912222
• eBook ISBN: 9781784912239
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Subtopic: Archaeology
• Index: Social Sciences

Professor Rodrigo de Balbín has played a major role in advancing our knowledge of Palaeolithic art, and the occasion of his retirement provides an excellent opportunity to assess the value of prehistoric art studies as a factor in the study of the culture of those human groups which produced this imagery. The diverse papers in this volume, published in Professor de Balbín's honour, cover a wide variety of the decorated caves which traditionally defined Palaeolithic art, as well as the open-air art of the period, a subject in which he has done pioneering work at Siega Verde and elsewhere. The result is a new and more realistic assessment of the social and symbolic framework of human groups from 40, 000 BP onwards.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of Figures and Tables
• List of contributors
• Prehistoric Art as Prehistoric Culture
• Prehistoric Art as Prehistoric Culture
• ‘Science’ versus Archaeology: Palaeolithic Rock Art at the beginning of the 21st century
• ‘Science’ versus Archaeology: Palaeolithic Rock Art at the beginning of the 21st century
• Palaeolithic Rock Art at the beginning of the 21st century
• ‘Science’ versus Archaeology:
• Raman spectroscopy of prehistoric pictorial materials
• Raman spectroscopy of prehistoric pictorial materials
• Raman spectroscopy of prehistoric pictorial materials
• Prehistoric rock art and non-invasive analysis
• Prehistoric rock art and non-invasive analysis
• Prehistoric rock art and non-invasive analysis
• Rouffignac as a case study
• Rouffignac as a case study
• Rouffignac as a case study
• Reasoning processes in prehistoric art interpretation
• Reasoning processes in prehistoric art interpretation
• An evaluation of the existing data and their potential implications
• An evaluation of the existing data and their potential implications
• An evaluation of the existing data and their potential implications
• Are hand stencils in European cave art older than we think?
• Are hand stencils in European cave art older than we think?
• Are hand stencils in European cave art older than we think?
• Cave’s figurative art is Magdalenian.
• Assumed to belong to the cave’s older phase, not its Magdalenian art.
• Regional ontologies in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: the place of mammoth and cave lion in the ‘belief world’ (Glaubenswelt) of the Swabian Aurignacian
• Regional ontologies in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: the place of mammoth and cave lion in the ‘belief world’ (Glaubenswelt) of the Swabian Aurignacian
• Regional ontologies in the Early Upper Palaeolithic: the place of mammoth and cave lion in the ‘belief world’ (Glaubenswelt) of the Swabian Aurignacian
• Aurignacian art in the caves and rock-shelters of Aquitaine (France)
• Aurignacian art in the caves and rock-shelters of Aquitaine (France)
• Aurignacian art in the caves and rock-shelters of Aquitaine (France)
• Fuente del Trucho, Huesca (Spain):
• Fuente del Trucho, Huesca (Spain):
• Fuente del Trucho, Huesca (Spain):
• Reading interaction in Palaeolithic art
• Reading interaction in Palaeolithic art
• Reading interaction in Palaeolithic art
• Open-air Ice Age art: the history and reluctant acceptance of an unexpected phenomenon
• Open-air Ice Age art: the history and reluctant acceptance of an unexpected phenomenon
• Open-air Ice Age art: the history and reluctant acceptance of an unexpected phenomenon
• Decorated sites and habitat: social appropriation of territories
• Decorated sites and habitat: social appropriation of territories
• Decorated sites and habitat: social appropriation of territories
• Deep caves, ritual and graphic expression: a critical review of the archaeological evidence on hypogean human activity during he Upper Palaeolithic/Magdalenian
• Deep caves, ritual and graphic expression: a critical review of the archaeological evidence on hypogean human activity during he Upper Palaeolithic/Magdalenian
• Deep caves, ritual and graphic expression: a critical review of the archaeological evidence on hypogean human activity during he Upper Palaeolithic/Magdalenian
• Magdalenian settlement-subsistence systems in Cantabrian Spain: contributions from El Mirón Cave
• Magdalenian settlement-subsistencesystems in Cantabrian Spain: contributions from El Mirón Cave
• Magdalenian settlement-subsistencesystems in Cantabrian Spain: contributions from El Mirón Cave
• The Upper Palaeolithic rock art of Portugal in its Iberian context
• The Upper Palaeolithic rock art of Portugal in its Iberian context
• The Upper Palaeolithic rock art of Portugal in its Iberian context
• Old panels and new readings. La Pileta and pre-Solutrean graphics in Southern Iberia
• Old panels and new readings. La Pileta and pre-Solutrean graphics in Southern Iberia
• Old panels and new readings. La Pileta and pre-Solutrean graphics in Southern Iberia
• Characteristics and territorial variation
• Characteristics and territorial variation
• Characteristics and territorial variation
• Palaeolithic art in the Iberian Mediterranean region.
• Palaeolithic art in the Iberian Mediterranean region.
• Palaeolithic art in the Iberian Mediterranean region.
• Small seeds for big debates: Past and present contributions to Palaeoart studies from North-eastern Iberia
• Small seeds for big debates: Past and present contributions to Palaeoart studies from North-eastern Iberia
• Small seeds for big debates: Past and present contributions to Palaeoart studies from North-eastern Iberia
• Throwing light on the hidden corners. New data on Palaeolithic art from NW Iberia
• Throwing light on the hidden corners. New data on Palaeolithic art from NW Iberia
• Throwing light on the hidden corners. New data on Palaeolithic art from NW Iberia