In:
Bulletin de la Société préhistorique française, PERSEE Program, Vol. 93, No. 3 ( 1996), p. 366-387
Kurzfassung:
ABSTRACT The inverted commas show that the metathesis of the title is not a slip. Indeed, many aspects of the megalithic current seem to be deeply rooted in the Upper Palaeolithic Magdalenian traditions : treatment of the corpses, spatial structures observed in art and architecture, as well as other features of everyday life. Inversely, the Balkano-Danubian Neolithic seems closer to the Eastern European Epigravettian tradition. Fifty years ago, Leroi-Gourhan opposed the linear space of hunter-gatherers to the circular one of peasants. We think that this assertion, formulated in a diachronical perspective, can today be considered as a mere ethnographical distinction. The geometrically ordered space of the semi-settled hunter-gatherers from the Russian plain can be opposed to the more homogenous and topological space of the nomadic Magdalenians. Later, the geometrical and metrical space of the Balkano-Danubian Early Neolithic illustrates the same kind of contrast with the looser spatial structures of the megalithbuilders. Thus, both kinds of spatial organization may coexist and do not depend on a Palaeolithic or Neolithic way of life. As a detailed account of the whole question would require a book, we only stress here some of the most salient features of these various cultural worlds. Even if such a synthesis may appear to be somewhat audacious, we believe that it remains globally true.
Materialart:
Online-Ressource
ISSN:
0249-7638
DOI:
10.3406/bspf.1996.10179
Sprache:
Französisch
Verlag:
PERSEE Program
Publikationsdatum:
1996
ZDB Id:
2506497-6
SSG:
6,12
SSG:
6,11
