Saturday, August 10, 2019
Grasp It All and lose your trail
Jean Clottes, Chauvet and
Paleolithic Shamanism
Working
on Jean Clottes is a great pleasure because of his personal views on
Paleolithic art in Sout-West Europe (France, Spain, and Portugal mainly) and in
this book written and published after forty years of work in the field Jean
Clottes tries to summarize his own life in archaeology. Unluckily he does not
open up the necessary doors that could bring in what has been done since the
year 2000, which he mostly ignores because he has not been in the field then
and he moved in his life too much as an archaeological tourist in many sites
all over the world that all have cave art or rock art, including some that have
not been yet dated like Baja California in Mexico. We would criticize
students if they did that under our guidance because that is not a good method.
Things were different before and after the peak of the glaciation, just for one
remark. So projecting back retrospectively present time shamanism in Southern
Africa onto this Paleolithic art, before the peak and after the peak of the Ice
Age equally is very debatable.
Publication Date: 2019
Publication Name: Medium.com
# posted by Dr. Jacques COULARDEAU @ 1:43 PM 
