Palaeolithic art at Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi, Sicily: a new chronology for mobiliary and parietal depictions. (9th February 2018)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: di Maida, Gianpiero; García-Diez, Marcos; Pastoors, Andreas; Terberger, Thomas
• Is Part Of: Antiquity. Volume 92:Number 361(2018)
• Page Start: 38
• Page End: 55
• Publication Date: 2018-02-09
• Subjects: Italy, -- Sicily, -- Palaeolithic, -- art, -- style, -- dating, -- chronology; Archaeology -- Periodicals; Antiquities -- Periodicals; 930.05
• DOI: 10.15184/aqy.2017.209
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0003-598X

Abstract

Abstract: Abstract : Unusually for a Palaeolithic cave, the Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi on the island of Levanzo, off the west coast of Sicily, Italy, has yielded evidence of both parietal and mobiliary art. Developments in dating techniques since the excavations of the 1950s now allow the age of the mobiliary art—an engraved aurochs—to be determined. At the same time, stylistic comparison of the parietal art at Grotta di Cala dei Genovesi with other broadly contemporaneous sites that demonstrate well-documented cave art allows a relative chronology to be proposed. The two methods taken together enable a direct chronological comparison to be made between the production of parietal and mobiliary art at this important cave site.