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Interpreting the Rock Paintings of Abri Faravel: laser and white-light scanning at 2,133m in the southern French Alps
K. Walsh, F. Mocci, C. Defrasne, V. Dumas and A. Masinton
Table of Contents
Summary
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Visual Summary
1.
Introduction and Rationale
2.
The Topographic Context
3.
Methods and Interpretative Framework: the use of virtual models in the interpretation of rock art
3.1
Interpretative framework
4. Defining the Contexts for the Art: Roaming the plateau
4.1
The key chronological phases at the Faravel rock shelter and its environs
4.1.1 The Mesolithic
4.1.2 The Neolithic
4.1.3 Bronze Age
4.1.4 Iron Age/Roman
4.2
Contextual faunal information
5. Interpretation of the Paintings
5.1
Digital enhancement of colours: D-stretch and the Artec white-light scan
5.2 Choice, tacit knowledge and tautology – interpreting the paintings at Faravel
5.2.1
The site location and positioning of the paintings
5.2.2
Classifying and 'dating' the paintings: the wider European and Alpine context
5.2.2.1 Rock art sites in the Western and Central Alps
5.2.2.2 Deer images: alpine comparisons
5.2.2.3 Deer and parallel lines: Provençal and Alpine comparisons
5.2.2.4 A striking but distant analogue
5.2.3
Tacit knowledge and chronological contexts
5.2.4
Tacit knowledge in Neolithic and Iron Age contexts
5.2.5
Conclusions: tacit knowledge and contexts of representation
5.2.6
Logistical issues of digital recording in remote landscapes
Technical Appendix
Acknowledgements
Bibliography