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Name      
France    Dordogne, Grotte du Roc Pointu EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: bovine, engraving, schematic, magdalenian, stylistic dating, calcite, alteration, indeterminate stroke
Institution: University of Liège  http://www.ulg.ac.be/prehist
Record
proposed
by
 Liège University - Belgium
 
Location
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Country:

 France

Locality:

 Castels

Region:

 Dordogne

Area:

 

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Plan de la grotte du Roc Pointu (d'après G. Galinat, 1976, dans l'Atlas des grottes ornées, 1984, p. 99).
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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:
S'ouvre au sud-ouest, au pied d'une falaise, sur la rive droite du Moulant (affluent de la Dordogne).

Proximity:

 autres sites dans la vallée de la Dordogne: grotte du Roc de Vézac, grottes de Domme et grotte de Cougnac.

Geology:
calcaire coniacien

Surface:
concrétionnement abondant (masque peut-être d'autres figures)

Dimensions:
Length 16.00 m.  Width 9.00 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
gravure fine, avec calcite sus- et sous-jacente. Tête de bison de profil, avec cornes en croissant, vues de face (voir La Mouthe, Altamira, Trois-Frères, Candamo, Arcy, Gabillou, Lascaux, Marcenac, Montespan, Le Placard). Figure isolée, située au fond de la grotte, à hauteur d'homme. Quelques traits non figuratifs à l'entrée de la grotte. L'abondant concrétionnement masque peut-être d'autres figures.

Figures:
total number 1
1 tête de bison, traits géométriques non figuratifs

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
attribution stylistique (peu sûre) au magdalénien ancien.

Notes:
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
France EuroPreArt general bibliography, by University of LiègeGeneral (country)
Specific Dordogne, Grotte du Roc Pointu 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

 

 
Conservation        

Status:

 Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
Tête de bison découverte en mars 1975 (Spéléo-club de Périgueux). Traits géométriques signalés par Roussot en 1978. Style de la gravure étudié en 1978. Grotte 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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