Institute For Ice Age Studies

This article originally appeared in Beyond Art, San Francisco:
Californian Academy of Science, 1997.

I. INTRODUCTION

II. TECHNOLOGICAL ORIENTATION

III. CASE STUDY I: AURIGNACIAN I PERSONAL ORNAMENTS

• A. The Sample
• B. A Schematic Châine Opératoire for Aurignacian I Personal Ornaments
• C. Formal Attributes of Beads
• D. Regional Perspectives
• E. Raw Material Choice and Acquisition
• F. Contribution of Raw Materials to Representational Form: Mammoth-Ivory as a Raw Material.
• G. Tools, Techniques and Gestures: Experimental Perspectives
• H. Contexts of Production, Use and Disposal

IV. CASE STUDY II: GRAVETTIAN ANTHROPOMORPHIC FIGURINES

• A. The Sample
• B. Female Representations as an Analytical Category
• C. Châine Opératoire for Gravettian Female Sculptures
• D. The Grimaldi Sub-Sample
• E. Raw Materials
• F. Contribution of Raw Materials to Object Form
• G. Formal Attributes of the Grimaldi Figures
• H. Tools, Techniques and Gestures.
• I. Technological Perspectives on hair and clothing.
• J. Other Subjects of Representation.
• K. Contexts of Use and Disposal

V. CONCLUSIONS

REFERENCES CITED

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS