Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists? age estimation through cave art hand stencils

This paper presents rock art as a collective action in which different strata of society took part, including children and subadults. Until recent decades archaeology of childhood has not been in the main focus of the archaeological research, much less the participation of those children in the arti...

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Autores: Fernandez Navarro, Verónica|||0000-0003-3591-1835, Camarós Pérez, Edgard, Garate Maidagan, Diego|||0000-0001-6685-9588
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2022
País:España
Institución:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)
Repositorio:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabria
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/27709
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/10902/27709
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Childhood
Rock art
Hand stencils
Experimentation
3D imagery
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spelling Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists? age estimation through cave art hand stencilsFernandez Navarro, Verónica|||0000-0003-3591-1835Camarós Pérez, EdgardGarate Maidagan, Diego|||0000-0001-6685-9588ChildhoodRock artHand stencilsExperimentation3D imageryThis paper presents rock art as a collective action in which different strata of society took part, including children and subadults. Until recent decades archaeology of childhood has not been in the main focus of the archaeological research, much less the participation of those children in the artistic activity. The present study approaches the palaeodemography of artists in the decorated caves through the paleolithic rock art itself. The approximate age of these individuals has been calculated through the biometric analysis of hand stencils in the caves of Fuente del Salín, Castillo, La Garma, Maltravieso and Fuente del Trucho, using 3D photogrammetric models as reference. The results have been compared with a modern reference population in order to assign the Palaeolithic hands to certain age groups. It has been demonstrated the presence of hand stencil motifs belongs to infants, children and juveniles, revealing this stratum?s importance in the artistic activity.The present study has been conducted as part of the research project “Before art: social investment in symbolic expressions during the Upper Palaeolithic (B-Art)” (PID 2019-107262 GB-I00), funded by the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities (MCIN/ AEI /10.13039/501100011033), PI: Diego Garate. This study is also a part of the research project “From the Mind to the Wall: Tracing Sign Language in Palæolithic Hand Stencils (MIND2WALL)” (ANR-21-CE27-0005), funded by the French Ministry of Culture, PI: Aritz Irurtzun.ElsevierUniversidad de Cantabria20222022-04-01journal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501NAhttp://purl.org/coar/version/c_be7fb7dd8ff6fe43info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttps://hdl.handle.net/10902/27709Journal of Archaeological Science, 2022, 140, 105574reponame:UCrea Repositorio Abierto de la Universidad de Cantabriainstname:Universidad de Cantabria (UC)Inglésengopen accesshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2Attribution 4.0 Internationalhttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:repositorio.unican.es:10902/277092026-06-02T12:39:31Z
dc.title.none.fl_str_mv Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists? age estimation through cave art hand stencils
title Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists? age estimation through cave art hand stencils
spellingShingle Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists? age estimation through cave art hand stencils
Fernandez Navarro, Verónica|||0000-0003-3591-1835
Childhood
Rock art
Hand stencils
Experimentation
3D imagery
title_short Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists? age estimation through cave art hand stencils
title_full Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists? age estimation through cave art hand stencils
title_fullStr Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists? age estimation through cave art hand stencils
title_full_unstemmed Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists? age estimation through cave art hand stencils
title_sort Visualizing childhood in Upper Palaeolithic societies: Experimental and archaeological approach to artists? age estimation through cave art hand stencils
dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv Fernandez Navarro, Verónica|||0000-0003-3591-1835
Camarós Pérez, Edgard
Garate Maidagan, Diego|||0000-0001-6685-9588
author Fernandez Navarro, Verónica|||0000-0003-3591-1835
author_facet Fernandez Navarro, Verónica|||0000-0003-3591-1835
Camarós Pérez, Edgard
Garate Maidagan, Diego|||0000-0001-6685-9588
author_role author
author2 Camarós Pérez, Edgard
Garate Maidagan, Diego|||0000-0001-6685-9588
author2_role author
author
dc.contributor.none.fl_str_mv Universidad de Cantabria
dc.subject.none.fl_str_mv Childhood
Rock art
Hand stencils
Experimentation
3D imagery
topic Childhood
Rock art
Hand stencils
Experimentation
3D imagery
description This paper presents rock art as a collective action in which different strata of society took part, including children and subadults. Until recent decades archaeology of childhood has not been in the main focus of the archaeological research, much less the participation of those children in the artistic activity. The present study approaches the palaeodemography of artists in the decorated caves through the paleolithic rock art itself. The approximate age of these individuals has been calculated through the biometric analysis of hand stencils in the caves of Fuente del Salín, Castillo, La Garma, Maltravieso and Fuente del Trucho, using 3D photogrammetric models as reference. The results have been compared with a modern reference population in order to assign the Palaeolithic hands to certain age groups. It has been demonstrated the presence of hand stencil motifs belongs to infants, children and juveniles, revealing this stratum?s importance in the artistic activity.
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