FERUGLIO , Valérie

The Grotte Chauvet is world renowned for the quality and diversity of its Palaeolithic art. Fire was particularly important to the occupants, providing light and producing charcoal for use in motifs. Charcoal samples were taken systematically from features associated with the two main occupation phases (Aurignacian and Gravettian). Analysis...

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In this article, we present a first synthesis of the chronology of Cussac Cave (Dordogne, SW France). This deep cavern (1.6 km), discovered in 2000, is very well preserved (e.g. intact floors) and thus favorable to research, especially given its rare association of parietal art and human remains, deposited in at least three locations. The...

Depuis sa découverte en 1994, la grotte Chauvet-Pont d'Arc fait l'objet d'études portant sur les dispositifs pariétaux, la spéléogenèse, les spéléothèmes ainsi que sur la taphonomie des sols et des parois. Sur ces dernières, un faciès de thermo-altération a été identifié, se présentant sous la forme de colorations grise et rose de la paroi,...