Le debacle Chauvet
Tags: CAVE paintings; PALEOLITHIC period -- France; CHAUVET Cave (France)
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- Passions run high over French cave art. Patel, Tara // New Scientist;5/04/96, Vol. 150 Issue 2028, p8
Reports on the scientific and legal battle over the Chauvet Cave in France. Rivalry between archaeologists Jean Clottes and Denis Vialou; Questions of ownership; Expectations.
- Thematic changes in upper Paleolithic art: A view from the Grotte Chauvet. Clottes, Jean // Antiquity;Jun96, Vol. 70 Issue 268, p276
Describes thematic changes in upper Paleolithic cave art at the Grotte Chauvet in France. Omnipresence of animals in cave paintings; Comparison of multiplicity of themes with Aurignacian and Perigordian art in well-dated sites; Gravettian themes in French caves.
- Caravaggio of the Caves. Glausiusz, Josie // Discover;Feb2002, Vol. 23 Issue 2, p17
Features a prehistoric cave paintings of Chauvet in Southeastern France. Use of a precision form of carbon dating to analyze the animal drawings and charcoal remains in the cave; Conduction of a research on the Chauvet paintings; Belief that the Chauvet paintings is one of the most ancient...
- Chauvet Cave. Clottes, Jean // National Geographic;Aug2001, Vol. 200 Issue 2, p104
Focuses on the art discovered on the walls of the Chauvet Cave in Ardeche, France in 1994. Impact of the first photographs taken at the cave on specialists and the public; Findings of radiocarbon datings of the cave; Details of the infrastructure of study at the cave; Description and...
- Evolution of prehistoric cave art. Valladas, H.; Clottes, J.; Geneste, J.-M.; Garcia, M.A.; Arnold, M.; Cachier, H.; Tisnerat-Laborde, N. // Nature;10/4/2001, Vol. 413 Issue 6855, p479
Reports on derived radiocarbon ages for the drawings in the Chauvet cave in Vallon-Pont d'Arc in Ardeche, France, which confirm that the drawings are of the Aurignacian period. Contradiction of the findings with existing theories on the origins of art; Description of the cave art studied and of...
- Secrets of the Cave's Art. Begley, Sharon; Thomas, Dana // Bulletin with Newsweek;05/25/99, Vol. 117 Issue 6175, p100
Presents information on the findings from the 1999 exploration of the Grotte Chauvet in southeast France. How the cave paintings there depict predatory animals rather than the hunted animals most common to other cave art; Number of paintings found by the team lead by archeologist Jean Clottes;...
- Shadows on the Wall. Couvrette, Phil // Time International (South Pacific Edition);10/26/1998, Issue 43, p51
Presents information on the legal actions that have held up the scientific study of the paintings in the Chauvet cave near Vallon-Pont-d' Arc in France. Cave discovered by Jean-Marie Chauvet, Christian Hillaire and Eliette Brunel; Ministry of Culture claiming that Chauvet, a part-time park...
- A CHAUVET PRIMER. Z. Z. // Archaeology;Mar/Apr2011, Vol. 64 Issue 2, p39
The article discusses the cave paintings discovered in 1994 in Chauvet Cave, France. The radiocarbon dating of the charcoal used in pigments of the paintings to determine they were as much as 35,000 years old is considered. The role of the extinct species the cave bear in the paintings is...
- OUT OF THE DARKNESS. Wigley, Samuel // Sight & Sound;Apr2011, Vol. 21 Issue 4, p28
An interview is presented with film director Werner Herzog, with a focus on his 3D documentary film "Cave of Forgotten Dreams." When asked about shooting the film inside the Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc Cave, he discusses negotiations with the French government. When asked about his reaction to the cave's...
