Social:Mask of la Roche-Cotard

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The artifact, possibly created by Neanderthal humans,[1] is a piece of flat flint that has been shaped in a way that seems to resemble the upper part of a face. A piece of bone pushed through a hole in the stone has been interpreted as a representation of eyes. Paul Bahn has suggested this "mask" is "highly inconvenient", as "It makes a nonsense of the view that clueless Neanderthals could only copy their cultural superiors the Cro-Magnons".[2] Though this may represent an example of artistic expression in Neanderthal humans,[3] some archaeologists question whether the artifact represents a face,[4] and some suggest that it may be practical rather than artistic.[5]

See also

  • Art of the Upper Paleolithic
  • Art of the Middle Paleolithic
  • List of Stone Age art

References

  1. ↑ Marquet, Jean-Claude; Lorblanchet, Michel (1 December 2003). "A Neanderthal face? The proto-figurine from La Roche-Cotard, Langeais (Indre-et-Loire, France)". Antiquity 77 (298): 661–670. doi:10.1017/s0003598x00061627. ISSN 0003-598X. http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/Ant/077/Ant0770661.htm. 
  2. ↑ Bahn, Paul (23 August 2003). "A bone to pick". New Scientist (2409). https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg17924095.600-a-bone-to-pick.html. 
  3. ↑ Pettitt, Paul B (April 2003). "Is this the infancy of art? Or the art of an infant? A possible Neanderthal face from La Roche-Cotard, France". Before Farming (Western Academic & Specialist Press) 11 (3). ISSN 1476-4261. Archived from the original on 2011-10-02. https://web.archive.org/web/20111002180404/http://www.waspress.co.uk/journals/beforefarming/journal_20034/news/BF3-4_11_NewsPettitt.pdf. 
  4. ↑ Chase, Philip G (2006). The emergence of culture: the evolution of a uniquely human way of life. Birkhäuser. pp. 217. ISBN 9780387305127. 
  5. ↑ "But is it art?". Science (AAAS) 302 (5652): 1890. 12 December 2003. doi:10.1126/science.302.5652.1890a. http://www.scienceonline.org/cgi/content/summary/302/5652/1890a. 

Further reading

  • M. Lorblanchet, La naissance de l'Art. Genèse de l'art préhistorique, Errances, 1999
  • Marquet J.-C., M. Lorblanchet, Le "Masque" moustérien de La Roche-Cotard, Langeais (Indre-et-Loire). Paléo, 2000, n° 12, p. 325-338.
  • Laurence Nicoud: L'art néandertalien: réalité et énigme. Archéologia (Paris): 407:6, January 2004
  • The Mousterian Protofigurine from La Roche-Cotard (France)

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