Three brothers cave
| Grotto des Trois-Frères
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| Location: | France , Occitania , Ariege department , municipality of Montesquieu-Avantès | |
| Height : | 465 m | |
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Geographic location: |
43 ° 1 '56 " N , 1 ° 12' 42" E | |
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| Type: | Bronze Age burial sites | |
| Discovery: | 1914 | |
| Show cave since: | No | |
| Particularities: | untouched; Period: Middle to Upper Upper Palaeolithic (= Magdalenian ) 18,000 - 12,000 BP | |
The Three Brothers Cave ( French: Grotte des Trois-Frères ) is one of the three caves of the Volp . It is located in the southern French region of Occitania in the Ariège department in the municipality of Montesquieu-Avantès and is part of the Franco-Cantabrian cave art . As a picture cave from the Upper Palaeolithic , it contains famous cave paintings from the Magdalenian culture . The altitude is 465 meters. The other two Volp caves , the cave of Tuc d'Audoubert and the cave of Enlène are in the immediate vicinity .
Cave painting
The cave is famous, among other things, for the murals of two beings, half human and half animal, which are rare in cave painting . The one, which has the characteristics of a human and a bison at the same time, is called “petit sorcier à l'arc musical” (“sorcerer with musical bow ”) because it looks like he is playing a mouth bow . The redrawings that are widespread for this purpose, however, only reproduce excerpts from a larger scene from partially overlapping drawings, which is why the interpretation as a mouth bow is uncertain. As for the second being, the interpretations have gradually interpreted it as a sorcerer who practices a magical rite, or as a god of animals called “dieu cornu” (“horned god”), or as a dancing shaman in a trance .
The cave owes its name to the three sons of Count Henri Bégouën, Max, Jacques and Louis, who, together with François Camel and Marcellin Bermon, discovered the entrance on July 20 or 21, 1914.
Prehistoric art:
- Cave paintings of the Magdalenian .
- Mobile art (head made of stylized horses)
- Floor tiles, slabs and a foyer inside the cave
See also
- Neighboring prehistoric caves: cave of Tuc d'Audoubert , Cave Enlène , cave of Montespan , cave of Mas d'Azil , cave of Gargas , Niaux Cave .
Web links
- Photo entrance area
- Plan of the cave
- Drawings of the right cave wall
- Sketch of the so-called “dancing shaman” by Henri Breuil
- Photograph of the "dancing shaman"
- Compare photo and sketch
Individual evidence
- ^ JVS Megaw: Earliest Musical Instruments in Europe. In: Archeology, Vol. 21, No. 2, April 1968, pp. 124-132, here p. 125
- ↑ a b according to the theories of Henri Bégouën and Henri Breuil , who were the first to study the cave
- ↑ see Photo of the Horned God
- ↑ J. Clottes and D. Lewis-Williams: Les chamanes de la préhistoire, transe et magic dans les grottes ornées (German: The shamans of prehistory, trance and magic in the caves with wall paintings) . Seuil, 1996.
- ↑ Ingmar M. Braun, Wolfgang Zessin: Palaeolithic rhinoceros depictions and the attempt at their zoological-ethological interpretation. ( Memento of the original from March 31, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. In: Ursus, Mitteilungsblatt des Zoovereins and the Schwerin Zoo, Volume 15, Issue 1 (December 2009): Braun, I. & W. Zessin: Palaeolithic Rhinoceros Depictions and the Attempt at Their Zoological-Ethological Interpretation, 3-19, Schwerin.
- ↑ Henri BEGOUËN. (htm) (. No longer available online) p http://www.balades-pyrenees.com/ , archived from the original on 13 May 2008 ; Retrieved February 27, 2008 (French). Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Biography Henri d'BEGOUËN. See http://www.hominides.com/ , accessed February 27, 2008 .
