The Horses At The Parpalló Cave (Gandia,valència, Spain)- Romain Pigeaud
We studied 165 engraved plaquettes of the Parpalló cave. 115 of them with one or several horses. The evolution in representing horsesfollows the same « heavy » tendency that Villaverde showed up. It is possible, however, to make evident two sub-tendencies : one isthe growing thickness of the strokes; the other one is the setting of volume by accentuation of multiple and repeated strokes Thistendency to develop the volume is in correlation with the lengthening of the neck and a dynamic representation of the breast, in anoblique line and projected forwards. We just want to point out an interesting phenomenon, a tendency, concomitance, at the Solutreo-Gravettian, of changings in the nutrition, the lithic culture and the manners to represent horses, more dynamic and projected forwards.These conventions which we can observe too on other represented animal species, can be found too in andalusian sites, 500 km southfrom Valencia, considered partly as contemporaneous of this cultural phase : the caves of La Trinidad at Ardalès and at Nerja.
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