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Name      
France    Dordogne, Grotte de Fronsac EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: magdalenian, style IV (A. Leroi-Gourhan), sexual symbol, anthropomorphic figure, schematic, engraving, cervid, quadrangular sign, bovine,
Institution: University of Liège  http://www.ulg.ac.be/prehist
Record
proposed
by
Liège University - Belgium
 
Location
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Country:

France

Locality:

Vieux-Mareuil

Region:

Dordogne

Area:

 

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Relevé de la frise gravée: figures féminines schématiques et symboles sexuels (B. et G. Delluc, dans H. Delporte, 1993, p. 82).
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Copyright. No commercial use of EuroPreArt content is allowed. Specific © for pictures and drawings is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution.
Disclaim. The EuroPreArt project fully endorses the most recent documentation policies. It must be outlined the absolute forbidding of any disruptive method and the necessity of a total respect for archaeological sites. It is also to be noticed that no substances shall be applied to rock art for recording purposes. Some pictures of the EuroPreArt records are related to past recording techniques and may not fully match these policies. They are an historical documentation. Please refer to local archaeological official authorities for any recording purpose. Please take a look also over EuroPreArt guidelines.
 
Environment & Surface

Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
La grotte, longue de 60 m, est constitué d'un couloir d'entrée se divisant en deux galeries étroites.

Proximity:

La grotte ornée de la Font-Bargeix se trouve à 3 km vers l'est, Jovelle à 4 km au sud, les grottes de Teyjat, Villars, le Fourneau du Diable se trouvent à environ 6 km, respectivement au nord-est, à l'est, au sud-est.

Geology:

Surface:

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Les gravures se répartissent dans trois zones: le couloir d'entrée, la Galerie des animaux, la Galerie des femmes. Le premier comporte un signe en grille et un avant-traint de cervidé. La seconde présente, sur la paroi gauche, un bison et une tête de cheval, associés à des figures fragmentaires ; sur la paroi droite: des signes en grille, des profils féminins schématiques, trois chevaux acéphales, et un panneau plus complexe composé de symboles sexuels (1 phallus, 2 vulves), une tête de cheval, trois petits chevaux. La Galerie des femmes contient 20 figures féminines, plus ou moins schématiques, parfois associées entre elles ou à d'autres éléments: un phallus dans une chatière, un profil humain, de petites figures animales au fond.

Figures:
total number 36
1 bison, 8 chevaux, animaux indéterminés, signe en grille, 2 phallus, 2 vulves, 21 figures féminines, 1 profil humain

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
le style, en particulier les profils féminins schématiques, évoque les sites du magdalénien final de Lalinde, la Gare de Couze, Gouy, la Font-Bargeix, ou Gönnersdorf et Andernach en Allemagne.

Notes:

Bibliographie non disponible ; enregistrement incomplet
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
France EuroPreArt general bibliography, by University of LiègeGeneral (country)
Specific Dordogne, Grotte de Fronsac bibliography, by University of LiègeSpecific (site)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic worldwide Database (external link). Compiled by Leigh Marymor. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley Bibliographic
Rock Art
Database

 

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Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

Les gravures sont découvertes en 1984 par le spéléologue C. Carcauzon. Des relevés sont exécutés par B. et G. Delluc. La grotte est fermée au public.

 

By          

Compiler:

Lremacle

Institution:

University of Liège  http://www.ulg.ac.be/prehist
 
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EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art, is a web-based archaeological project funded by the European Union which aims to establish a lasting data-base of European prehistoric art documentation, to launch the base of an European institutional network and to contribute to the awareness of the diversity and richness of European Prehistoric Art.
It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón (España), Université de Liège (Belgique), Gotland University College (Sverige), University College Dublin (Eire), Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Italia), Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art of Pinerolo (Italia), The European Centre for Prehistoric Research in the Alto Ribatejo (Portugal), ArqueoJovem - a youth NGO (Portugal).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem

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