1. Les colorants de l’art paléolithique dans les grottes et en plein air
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de Balbín Behrmann, Rodrigo and González, José Javier Alcolea
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PALEOLITHIC art , *PIGMENTS , *DYES & dyeing , *CAVE paintings , *COLOR in art , *CULTURE - Abstract
Abstract: The dyes used in the manufacture of Palaeolithic paintings are a cultural element of the first order to know the intentions of the artists, their points of supply, its systems for mixing and preparing and the quality of the used pigments. But here is not its only value, since they are used to establish possible areas and cultural relations that go beyond the technical to constitute genuine cultural bases. What we know at the moment suggests a degree of heterogeneity in the mixtures and systems on a common term that adapts to each specific site. The colours are fairly well preserved in the cave interior, and very badly abroad, in the Palaeolithic version of rock shelter external art. But we were able to isolate some samples in the Spanish site of Siega Verde, leading to affirm the general community of systems for all Palaeolithic art, underground and on it, proving that what today is black and white had chromatic signalling in the Palaeolithic epoch. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]
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- 2009
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