Hostname: page-component-586b7cd67f-vdxz6 Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-11-30T06:31:49.015Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false
  • English
  • Français

Dating French and Spanish Prehistoric Decorated Caves in their Archaeological Contexts

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 February 2016

H Valladas ,
E Kaltnecker ,
A Quiles ,
N Tisnérat-Laborde ,
D Genty ,
M Arnold ,
E Delqué-Količ ,
C Moreau ,
D Baffier  and
J J Cleyet Merle
...Show all authors
H Valladas
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
E Kaltnecker
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
A Quiles
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
N Tisnérat-Laborde
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
D Genty
Affiliation:
Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE/IPSL), CEA-CNRS-UVSQ, Avenue de la Terrasse, 91198 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
M Arnold
Affiliation:
Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS-IRD-Collège de France, UM 34 CEREGE, Technopôle de l'Environnement Arbois-Méditerranée, BP80, 13545 Aix-en-Provence, France
E Delqué-Količ
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mesure du carbone 14, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
C Moreau
Affiliation:
Laboratoire de Mesure du carbone 14, CEA Saclay, 91191 Gif-sur-Yvette Cedex, France
D Baffier
Affiliation:
CREPS, 07150 Vallon Pont d'Arc, France
J J Cleyet Merle
Affiliation:
Musée National de Préhistoire, 24620 Les Eyzies de Tayac, France
J Clottes
Affiliation:
11 rue du Fourcat, 09000 Foix, France
M Girard
Affiliation:
342 Boulevard des Horizons, 06220 Vallauris, France
J Monney
Affiliation:
Centre National de Préhistoire, 38 rue du 26ème R.I., 24000 Périgueux, France
R Montes
Affiliation:
Museo Nacional y Centro de Investigación de Altamira, Spain
C Sainz
Affiliation:
Universitad de Cantabria, dpto. Sciencias Historicas, 39005 Santander, Spain
J L Sanchidrian
Affiliation:
Universitad de Cordoba, Area Prehistoria, Departamento de Geografía y Ciencias del Territorio, Plaza Cardenal Salazar s/n, 14071, Cordoba, Spain
R Simonnet
Affiliation:
28 allée de la Limagne, 31300 Toulouse, France
Get access Rights & Permissions [Opens in a new window]

Abstract

The Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE) research program on prehistoric art conducts chronological studies of parietal representations with their associated archaeological context. This multidisciplinary approach provides chronological arguments about the creation period of parietal representations. This article presents chronological investigations carried out in several decorated caves in France (La Grande Grotte, Labastide, Lascaux, La Tête-du-Lion, Villars) and Spain (La Garma, Nerja, La Pileta, Urdiales). Several types of organic materials, collected from different areas of the caves close to the walls and in connection with parietal art, were dated to determine the periods of human presence in the cave, a presence that may have been related to artistic activities. These new radiocarbon results range from 33,000–29,000 (La Grande Grotte) to 16,000–14,000 cal BP (Urdiales).

Type
Radiocarbon Dating and the Paleolithic
Information
Radiocarbon , Volume 55 , Issue 3: Proceedings of the 21st International Radiocarbon Conference (Part 2 of 2) , 2013 , pp. 1422 - 1431
Copyright
Copyright © 2013 by the Arizona Board of Regents on behalf of the University of Arizona 

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Arnold, M, Bard, E, Maurice, P, Valladas, H, Duplessy, JC. 1989. 14C dating with the Gif-sur-Yvette Tandetron accelerator: status report and study of isotopic fractionation in the sputter ion source. Radiocarbon 31(3):284–91.Google Scholar
Aujoulat, N. 2004. Lascaux. Le geste, l'espace et le temps. Paris: Seuil.Google Scholar
Aujoulat, N, Cleyet-Merle, JJ, Gaussen, J, Tisnérat, N, Valladas, H. 1998. Approche chronologique de quelques sites ornés paléolithiques du Périgord par datation 14C, en spectrométrie de masse par accélérateur, de leur mobilier archéologique. Paléo 10:319–23.Google Scholar
Baffier, D, Girard, M. 1998. Les cavernes d'Arcy-sur-Cure, La maison des roches. Paris: Collections Terres Préhistoriques. 120 p.Google Scholar
Baffier, D, Girard, M. 2013. L'art pariétal gravettien du nord de la France. In: Otte, M, director. Les Gravettiens. Paris-Aries: editions Errance (Collection Civilisations et Cultures). p 215–34.Google Scholar
Batten, RJ, Gillespie, R, Gowlett, JAJ, Hedges, REM. 1986. The AMS dating of separate fractions in archaeology. Radiocarbon 28(2A):698–701.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Beck, L, Genty, D, Lahlil, S, Lebon, M, Tereygeol, F, Vignaud, C, Reiche, I, Lambert, E, Valladas, H, Kaltnecker, E, Plassard, F, Menu, M, Paillet, P. 2013. Non-destructive portable analytical techniques for carbon in-situ screening before sampling for dating prehistoric rock paintings. Radiocarbon, these proceedings, doi:10.2458/azu_js_rc.55.16248.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Combier, J. 1984. La grotte de la Tête-du-Lion à Bidon (Ardèche). In: L'art des Cavernes. Paris: Ministère de la Culture Imprimerie nationale. p 595–9.Google Scholar
Delibrias, G, Guillier, MT, Labeyrie, J. 1964. Saclay natural radiocarbon measurements I. Radiocarbon 6:233–50.Google Scholar
Evin, J, Marten, G, Pachiaudi, C. 1975. Lyon natural radiocarbon measurements V. Radiocarbon 17(1):4–34.Google Scholar
Girard, M, Baffier, D, Tisnerat, N, Valladas, H, Arnold, M, Hedges, R. 1996. Dates 14C en spectrométrie de masse par accélérateur à la Grande Grotte d'Arcy-sur-Cure (Yonne). Cahiers Archéologiques de Bourgogne 6:17–23.Google Scholar
Glory, A. 2008. Les recherches à Lascaux (1952–1963). Gallia Préhistorique. XXXIXe supplément. Paris: CNRS Editions. 196 p.Google Scholar
González Sainz, C. 2007. Dating Magdalenian art in north Spain: the current situation. In: Pettitt, P, Bahn, P, Ripoll, S, editors. Palaeolithic Cave Art at Creswell Crags in European Context. Oxford: Oxford University Press. p 247–62.Google Scholar
Leroi-Gourhan, A, Evin, J. Lascaux inconnu. XIIe supplément à Gallia Préhistoire. Paris: CNRS. 379 p.Google Scholar
Monney, J, Combier, J, Kaltnecker, E, Lateur, N, Moreau, C, Stocchetti, S, Valladas, H. 2013. Nouveaux éléments de discussion chronologiques dans le paysage des Grottes ornées de l'Ardèche: Oulen, Chabot et Tête-du-Lion. Actes du colloque MADAPCA, Novembre 2011, Paris. Paléo: hors série 2013.Google Scholar
Nelson, DE. 1991. A new method for carbon isotopic analysis of protein. Science 251(4993):552–4.Google Scholar
Reimer, PJ, Baillie, MGL, Bard, E, Bayliss, A, Beck, JW, Blackwell, PG, Bronk Ramsey, C, Buck, CE, Burr, GS, Edwards, RL, Friedrich, M, Grootes, PM, Guilderson, TP, Hajdas, I, Heaton, T, Hogg, AG, Hughen, KA, Kaiser, KF, Kromer, B, McCormac, FG, Manning, SW, Reimer, RW, Richards, DA, Southon, JR, Talamo, S, Turney, CSM, van der Plicht, J, Weyhenmeyer, CE. 2009. IntCal09 and Marine09 radiocarbon age calibration curves, 0–50,000 years cal BP. Radiocarbon 51(4):1111–50.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Sanchidrián Torti, JL. 1994. Arte Rupestre de la Cueva de Nerja. Trabajos sobre la Cueva de Nerja, 4. Málaga: Patronato de la Cueva de Nerja. 344 p.Google Scholar
Simonnet, R. 1993. Les techniques de representation dans la grotte ornée de Labastide (Hautes-Pyrénées). Congrès National des Sociétés historiques et scientifiques 118è Pau. p 341–52.Google Scholar
Simonnet, G, Simonnet, L, Simonnet, R. 1984. Grotte de Labastide. In: l'Art des Cavernes: Atlas des grottes ornées paléolithiques françaises. Paris: Ministère de la Culture, Imprimerie Nationale. p 527–35.Google Scholar
Stuiver, M, Reimer, PJ, Reimer, R. 2010. CALIB radiocarbon calibration. URL: http://calib.qub.ac.uk/calib/.Google Scholar
Tisnérat-Laborde, N, Valladas, H, Kaltnecker, E, Arnold, M. 2003. AMS radiocarbon dating of bones at LSCE. Radiocarbon 45(3):409–19.Google Scholar
Valladas, H, Tisnérat-Laborde, N, Cachier, H, Arnold, M, Bernaldo De Quiros, F, Cabrera-Valdes, V, Clottes, J, Courtin, J, Fortea-Perez, J, Gonzales-Sainz, C, Moure-Romanillo, A. 2001a. Radiocarbon AMS dates for Paleolithic cave paintings. Radiocarbon 43(2B):977–86.Google Scholar
Valladas, H, Clottes, J, Geneste, JM, Garcia, M, Arnold, M, Cachier, H, Tisnérat-Laborde, N. 2001b. Evolution of prehistoric cave art. Nature 413(6855):79.Google Scholar