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The Cognitive Processus Behind Neolithic Schematic Rock Art. Archaeological Implications and Research Hypothesis

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The issue addressed in this article is essentially whether the same cognitive processes are at work for mimetic prehistoric graphic productions and schematic ones. Holocene schematic rock art is one of the main graphic expressions of European prehistory, from the Iberian peninsula to Italy. Despite its wide distribution and the incomparable insight it may provide on the functioning of prehistoric human groups and the cultural geography of the western European Neolithic, this rock art's imprecise chronology and geometric and schematic nature has often led to its exclusion from research on these societies, particularly in France. This paper proposes a study of schematic rock art from the perspective of the pragmatic and cognitive semiotics of visual culture and suggests that the production and purpose of diagrams, which compose so-called schematic rock art and which are common to all human societies, are different to those of figurative images, as is their cognitive origin. This demonstration sheds a new light on schematic rock art and the social practices it involved and invites us to rethink its coexistence with the Levantine imagery from the Spanish Levant.
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Claudia Defrasne. The Cognitive Processus Behind Neolithic Schematic Rock Art. Archaeological Implications and Research Hypothesis. Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2022, pp.1-23. ⟨10.1017/S0959774322000233⟩. ⟨hal-03877415⟩
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