Research Article
The Pearls of the Molard of Lavours’ Shelters
Department of Anthropology, University of Nice Sophia Antipolis, France
Received Date:October 01, 2018; Published Date: October 26, 2018
Abstract
Robert Vilain and Jean-Michel Treffort (2010) suggest to attribute the engravings of the Molard of Lavours’ shelter (Ain, France) to the transition of the Bronze and Iron Ages. They compare these engravings with those of Valcamonica (Lombardy, Italy) and certain sites of Savoy and Piedmont. If the dating was proved true, we could thus have there an off-centered and unpublished marker-pole of the prehistoric iconography, because far from the big centers of pre and protohistoric alpine area of engravings. Such a chronological proposal in this place can only draw the attention and arouses remarks. Is this hypothesis educated by convincing elements of comparison and reflection or can we imagine other chrono-cultural attributions and other hermeneutics for these figures? We propose here other conclusions.
