Lascaux, le rôle du déterminisme naturel : des modalités d'élection du site aux protocoles de construction des édifices graphiques pariétaux

Abstract

The physical environnement plays a major part in activities of humans when they chose certain karstic cavities as their sanctuaires. This study intends to identify the paleoenvironnemental criteria which were used to select the Lascaux cave, within its geographical context in the basin valley of the Vezere, as well as those that presided over the realization of its wall art. Such an approach will highlight the geological criteria in the choices of habitation versus painted or engraved sites. In addition, il will reveal the fundamental role of the underground netword architecture for the location of the images, as well as that of the morphological, optical and mechanical properties of the walls and ceilings for the technology of the designs. It was thus possible to evidence various graphic cycles in the making of the animal figures which could be synchronized with biological cycles.

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