Les dessins noirs des salles Hillaire et du Crâne, grotte Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc : chronologie relative

Abstract

There was a first phase of decoration on the hanging rocks and walls at the start of the "black sector» (Hillaire Chamber and Chamber of the Skull), partially obliterated by bears and humans. Another human group later engraved other figures then again drew in charcoal on the same panels and extended the decoration to other areas. In some places superpositions are still visible whereas in others, such as the Panel of the Horses, only a few engravings can be perceived while the last phase obliterated all the others. The relative chronology of certain panels sheds new light on the whole of the cave's decoration.The dates are consistent, as far as the last phase is concerned (30000-32 000). The interval after the first decoration is difficult to estimate. Geological surface phenomena could help us, as the wall seems to have become softer between the two phases.

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