Bouquetins et Pyrénées. II - Inventaire des représentations du Paléolithique pyrénéen. Offert à Jean Clottes, Conservateur général du Patrimoine honoraire. Magazines The first article

The first article

Ed van der Elsken

The investigation also concerns the Merovingian period

the remarkable collection of powder boxes

Bouquetins et Pyrénées. II - Inventaire des représentations du Paléolithique pyrénéen. Offert à Jean Clottes, Conservateur général du Patrimoine honoraire. Magazines The first articleAn emblematic animal of the Pyrenees, the ibex has inhabited both sides of the Pyrenees since ancient times. By adapting to this environment, a typically Pyrenean form, Capra pyrenaica pyrenaica, appeared several millennia ago. Consumed during prehistory, the ibex became, during the Late Paleolithic, an essential figure in the prehistoric bestiary. Many of its representations are world famous: painted ibexes from the Salon Noir (Niaux cave, Arige) or