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Name      
France    Lot, Grotte Le Cuzoul de Mélanie EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: Palaeolithic, Incisions, Anthropomorphic figure, bovine, sign, natural relief, natural light, alteration
Institution: University of Liège  http://www.ulg.ac.be/prehist
Record
proposed
by
 Liège University - Belgium
 
Location
Specific feedbackSpecific feedback

Country:

 France

Locality:

 Cabrerets

Region:

 Lot

Area:

 

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Plan de la grotte (relevé M. Lorblanchet dans l'Atlas des grottes ornées, 1984, p. 461).
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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:
Courte grotte ouverte au sud dans la falaise surplombant la rive droite du Célé.

Proximity:

 La grotte ornée du Cantal s'ouvre en face. La confluence du Lot et du Célé et le village de Cabrerets se trouvent à proximité.

Geology:
calcaire

Surface:
pas de concrétionnement. Surfaces dures.

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
La grotte est formée d'un simple boyau coudé (2 à 3 m de haut, 25 m de long). A l'entrée sont visibles des signes anthropomorphes (très) récents (certains remontent au 18e siècle). Quelques mètres plus loin, dans la pénombre, se trouve une gravure de bison cadrée sur une concavité naturelle. Elle est accompagnée d'un signe incomplet.

Figures:
total number 1
1 bison, 1 signe

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
La technique de gravure utilisée peut se comparer avec les tracés digitaux du Pech-Merle, mais aucune attribution précise n'est disponible.

Notes:
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
France EuroPreArt general bibliography, by University of LiègeGeneral (country)
Specific Lot, Grotte Le Cuzoul de Mélanie 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:
Les figures ont été endommagées à une époque ancienne. Une habitation masque l'entrée de la grotte.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
La grotte est déjà connue par A. Lemozi. Une description a été donnée par M. Lorblanchet en 1971.

 
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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