Child in Time: Children as Liminal Agents in Upper Paleolithic Decorated Caves
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Children in Upper Paleolithic Decorated Caves
3. Finger Flutings and Handprints
4. Challenges in Entering a Deep Cave
5. Caves—The Birthplace of Everything and Home of the Ancestors
6. The Liminality of Children and Childhood: An Ethnographic Perspective
7. Discussion
8. Conclusions
Author Contributions
Funding
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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Site | Finger Flutings | Handprints | Footprints | Ref |
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Rouffignac | + | (Nowell and Van Gelder 2020; Van Gelder 2013) | ||
Gargas | + | + | (Van Gelder 2015; Sharpe and Van Gelder 2006; Nowell and Van Gelder 2020) | |
Las Chimeneas | + | (Van Gelder 2015) | ||
Fuente del Salín | + | (Alzate Casallas 2023) | ||
Fuente del Trucho | + | (Hoffmann et al. 2017) | ||
Maltravieso | + | (Rosina et al. 2023) | ||
La Garma | + | (Pettitt et al. 2014) | ||
Pech Merle | + | + | (Pastoors et al. 2015) | |
Tuc d’Audoubert | + | (Bégouën and Breuil 1958; de Beaune 2022) | ||
Réseau Clastres | + | (Pastoors et al. 2021) (Fritz et al. 2016) (de Beaune 2022) | ||
Bàsura Cave | + | (Lockley et al. 2008; Romano et al. 2019) | ||
Fontanet | + | + | (de Beaune 2022) | |
Theopetra | + | (Facorellis et al. 2001; Bednarik 2008) | ||
Cosquer | + | (Clottes et al. 2005) | ||
Altamira | + | (Clottes et al. 2005) |
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