Taphonomic Approach to the Walls of Decorated Caves

Objectives In decorated caves, the aim of taphonomic studies is to understand the evolution of the wall surfaces. It is thus possible to reconstruct the initial state of a wall before the realization of art works and understanding the processes that occurred after the presence of humans: what processes modified the drawings after their realization? Can we identify the parts of the cave where artistic representations have disappeared? What is the difference between the initial corpus and that ...