Rupestral Art

Within the framework of the study of the prehistoric Art, the expression “ rupestral art ” indicates the whole of the works of art in the broad sense (without esthetic appreciation) carried out by the Man on rocks, generally in the open air. It corresponds to the English expression and the majority of the authors oppose it today to the parietal Art , (art on walls of caves or) but also to the movable Art (which one can move) and with the Art on block.

According to the prehistorian Emmanuel Anati, there would exist 45 million cave paintings on rocks and in caves, on 170.000 sites of 160 countries.

Among the most famous sites:

In Europe, the Valley of Coâ to the Portugal, the Vallée of the Wonders in France constitute two examples among most famous of European rupestral art, respectively of the Paléolithique superior and the Bronze Age;
In Southern Africa, one can quote the Grotte Apollo 11 which goes back to 26.000 years, the Grotte Wonderwerk and the Abri of Range Not in the Monts of Drakensberg;
the the Sahara comprises also many sites of cave paintings as to Tissonkaï and Djabarren (6000 with 4000 front J. - C.), in the south of the mounts Atlas or in the Tibesti;
In North America: Great Gallery (Utah), Pecos To rivet (Texas, Mexico), Coso Arranges (California).
In Indonesia, of the cave paintings of the Mesolithic representing characters using of the kites between -9000 and -5000.

In China, with Damaidi, in the autonomous region Today of the Ningxia, from the cave paintings would date from the Paléolithique (-20.000 with -30.000, among that Ci, Venus close to the cave paintings of Greece or Australia.

See too

Internal bonds

Petroglyph, engraving on stone.
the wedge-shaped writing, a form of very old writing on clay.
prehistoric Art
rupestral Engravings of the South-Oranian (Algeria)

External bond

Last discoveries of rupestral art by Jean Clottes, Preserving general of the inheritance.

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