The cave beneath the sea : Paleolithic images at Cosquer / Jean Clottes and Jean Courtin ; translated from the French by Marilyn Garner.
By: Clottes, Jean.
Contributor(s): Courtin, Jean.
Material type: BookPublisher: New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1996Description: 200 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 31 cm.ISBN: 0810940337.Other title: Paleolithic images at Cosquer.Subject(s): Paleolithic period -- France -- Bouches-du-Rhône | Cave paintings -- France -- Bouches-du-Rhône | Petroglyphs -- France -- Bouches-du-Rhône | Art, Prehistoric -- France | Cosquer Cave (France) | Bouches-du-Rhône (France) -- AntiquitiesDDC classification: 709.0112Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU National Maritime College of Ireland Library Lending | 709.0112 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00109899 |
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A fine publication which tells the story of the discovery and subsequent investigation of Grotte Cosquer, one of the most stunning - and chronologically accountable - examples of paleolithic cave art yet to be found. With high-quality colour photographs the 18,500 year-old representations of horses, ibex, chamois, aurochs, megaloceros, and sea creatures such as seals and great auks are shown in all their glory. A remarkable account of a very unusual find.
Bibliography: p. 192-196.
The natural setting: the countryside, the animals, and the people in the days of the Cosquer Cave -- Description of the cave -- The finger tracings and the hands -- The land animals -- The sea animals -- The signs -- The killed man -- Chronology and meaning -- The singularity, significance, and future of the cave.
In 1991, a professional diver named Henri Cosquer discovered a wealth of prehistoric art in a cave near Marseilles, France. The opening to the cave, once several miles inland from the Mediterranean, became submerged when the sea began to rise at the end of the last ice age, about 12,000 years ago. Since that time, no human had entered this deep cavern or seen the paintings and engravings of animals, human hands, and signs that cover the walls and ceilings until Cosquer swam cautiously up the flooded entrance passage. News of Cosquer's extraordinary find flashed around the world. The French Ministry of Culture immediately sent two eminent archaeologists, Jean Clottes and Jean Courtin, to study the cave. Assisted by teams of specialists, they carried out two diving missions to the site, in 1991 and 1992. This book describes what they found and provides the first complete photographic documentation of this incredible site, one of the major decorated caves of Europe.
Translation of: La grotte Cosquer.
Cian Ó Sé collection.