La representation du mouvement au Paleolithique superieur Apport du comparatisme ethographique a Vinterpretation de Vart parietal

摘要

The first figures of humanity are basically reproductions of animals. This study (a thesis which is limited to France and parietal art) analyses the animated figures that might, in part, by means of ethology, shed light on the motivation of the Upper Palaeolithic hunter-artists. The ethological approach provides essential tools for the study and comprehension of parietal art. The representation of movement plays a role in the significance of prehistoric art. Behavioural topics and their combinations within the assemblies probably constituted the terms of an early "grammar", heralding the first pictograms. Hunting and the fertility of animals probably held a choice place within it.