Beyond hides and bones – Animals, animal representations and therianthropic figurines in palaeolithic art
This contribution compares different aspects of human/animal relationship: animal bones and teeth as raw material in Palaeolithic art as well as animal representations and therianthropic creatures. It can be noticed that the chosen raw material for the production of animal representations changes ch...
| Veröffentlicht in: | Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie. - Naturhistorisches Museum Wien. - 120(2018) vom: Jan., Seite 51-70 |
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| Format: | Online-Aufsatz |
| Sprache: | English |
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2018
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| Zugriff auf das übergeordnete Werk: | Annalen des Naturhistorischen Museums in Wien. Serie A für Mineralogie und Petrographie, Geologie und Paläontologie, Anthropologie und Prähistorie |
| Schlagworte: | Palaeolithic art Europe animal raw material animal representations Biological sciences Arts Physical sciences Business |
| Zusammenfassung: | This contribution compares different aspects of human/animal relationship: animal bones and teeth as raw material in Palaeolithic art as well as animal representations and therianthropic creatures. It can be noticed that the chosen raw material for the production of animal representations changes chronologically as well as regionally. This choice can be different from one site to the other and seems to depend on the individual choice of a group of people and not only on the availability of certain materials. Animals in Palaeolithic art are not just a sort of catalogue of the hunted fauna. Studies demonstrate that the represented fauna is not identical with the economically most important fauna. Regional differences concerning the representation of selected animal species are not necessarily mirroring regional differences in the composition of the game. |
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| ISSN: | 02550091 |