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Name      
France    Lot, Grotte de Pergouset EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Palaeolithic, Magdalenean, style IV (A. Leroi-Gourhan), realism, engraving, equid, bovine, cervid, anthropomorphic figure, sexual symbol, indeterminate figure, fantastic animal, natural relief,
Institution: University of Liège  http://www.ulg.ac.be/prehist
Record
proposed
by
Liège University - Belgium
 
Location
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Country:

France

Locality:

Saint-Géry

Region:

Lot

Area:

 

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Plan de la grotte (relevé G. Maury, dans l'Atlas des grottes ornées, 1984, p. 504).
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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:
Grotte ouverte au sud dans une falaise, dominant d'une dizaine de mètres la rive droite du Lot. L'entrée se trouve dans le fossé bordant la route N662.

Proximity:

La confluence du Lot et du Célé se trouve à proximité. Cette zone compte de nombreuses grottes ornées, parmi lesquelles Pech-Merle, Carriot, Christian et la Bigourdane.

Geology:

calcaire oxfordo-callovien

Surface:

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Palaeolithic, Magdalenean, style IV (A. Leroi-Gourhan), realism, engraving, equid, bovine, cervid, anthropomorphic figure, sexual symbol, indeterminate figure, fantastic animal, natural relief,

Figures:
total number 153
17 chevaux, 5 rennes, 5 bisons, 8 bouquetins, 3 cervidés, 1 bovidé, 1 anthropomorphe, 3 symboles sexuels, 1 poisson, 1 oiseau, 49 signes, 8 animaux indéterminés, 10 monstres, 40 indéterminés

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
Aucun vestige paléolithique permettant une attribution chronologique n'a été mis au jour dans la grotte. Le style des ouvres, malgré la thématique distincte dans les deux parties de la grotte, semble assez homogène et peut être attribué au Magdalénien moyen régional, entre autre par comparaison avec les figures de Sainte-Eulalie.

Notes:

 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
France EuroPreArt general bibliography, by University of LiègeGeneral (country)
Specific Lot, Grotte de Pergouset 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:

Les figures sont bien conservées, grâce à la fermeture de l'entrée et à l'étroitesse des boyaux. Les parois sont cependant très fragiles.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

Les figures pariétales sont découvertes le 4 février 1964 par des spéléologues, après désobstruction de la galerie. Elles sont étudiées successivement par G. Simonnet, L. Méroc (1967), J. Clottes (1969), J. Vertut et A. Leroi-Gourhan (1965-1971) et M. Lorblanchet (1984); ce dernier publie une monographie en 2001. Le site, classé Monument historique le 13 mars 1968, est fermé 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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