L’abri orné de la Ségognole, Noisy-sur-École, Seine-et-Marne. Description des gravures et proposition d’attribution chronoculturelle
Year: 2010
Type: article
Abstract: The decorated shelter of la Ségognole, in the Trois-Pignons forest, Noisy-sur-École, Seine-et-Marne, contains some of the rarest artistic evidence attributable to the Upper Palaeolithic ever reported in the northern part of France. The single decorated panel of the small cavity is composed of engravings of one complete horse and the forequarters of a second one, separated by three natural cracks, two of which have been worked to form a vulvar motif. Studies of this composition, the layout, the presence of segmental animation and the proportions of the complete horse, lead us to propose a chrono-cultural attribution to the Magdalenian. Depictions of horses in Palaeolithic parietal art and on artefacts in the northern part of France are not related stylistically to the complete horse at la Ségognole. Its counterparts are found in Périgord and Quercy.
Author: Alain Benard
Language: English
Subfield: Archeology
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2211043056