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Name      
France    Lot, Grotte Marcenac EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Palaeolithic, style III (A. Leroi-Gourhan), Painting, engraving, bovine, equid, ibex, cervid, indeterminate figure, sign, indeterminate traces, alteration
Institution: University of Liège  http://www.ulg.ac.be/prehist
Record
proposed
by
 Liège University - Belgium
 
Location
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Country:

 France

Locality:

 Cabrerets

Region:

 Lot

Area:

 

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Plan de la grotte (relevé P. Regnault, dans l'Atlas des grottes ornées, 1984, p. 464).
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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:
L'entrée de la grotte, ouverte au sud-sud-est, surplombe de 100 m la vallée de la Sagne

Proximity:

 Située à 300 m à l'est de la grotte ornée du Pech-Merle. Le village de Cabrerets se trouve à proximité.

Geology:
calcaire

Surface:
pas de concrétionnement

 

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Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Simple galerie horizontale longue de 130 m, large et haute de 5 à 10 m, où s'ouvrent de petits diverticules, dont un est orné. A 20 m de l'entrée, on peut voir une frise de cerfs gravée, comptant une douzaine d'animaux, un petit bouquetin gravé et des tracés rougeâtres. A proximité se trouve un signe rectangulaire cloisonné (comparable à ceux de Sainte-Eulalie ou de la grotte Christian). Sur la paroi opposée se trouvent des figures bichromes (noir et rouge), dont un animal acéphale (bouf?), associé à une encolure de cheval noir et un signe rectangulaire rouge. Le diverticule comporte un bison (1,75 m) et un cheval (95 cm) au trait noir.

Figures:
total number 16
1 bison, 1 cheval, 1 bouquetin, 12 cerfs, 1 animal acéphale, signes, tracés indéterminés.

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
Le style des représentations animales est proche de celui de la Frise noire du Pech-Merle, et peut dès lors être attribué au Style III de Leroi-Gourhan. Le style des cervidés peut se comparer aux "cerfs nageant" de Lascaux.

Notes:
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
France EuroPreArt general bibliography, by University of LiègeGeneral (country)
Specific Lot, Grotte Marcenac 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:
Calcite, ruissellements, suintements, dépôts noirâtres, graffitis (noirs ou gravés) altèrent les figures pariétales.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
La grotte est découverte en 1850. Des fouilles sont menées en 1868 par F. Garrigou et H. Duportal. Les gravures et peintures sont découvertes par A. Viré, le chanoine Albe et A. Lemozi en 1920. Les figures sont publiées par A. Lemozi entre 1920 et 1959. Le site, fermé au public, est classé Monument historique le 17 février 1951.

 
By          

Compiler:

 Lremacle - Dflas

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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