Tuc d'Audoubert cave
| Grotto du Tuc d'Audoubert
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| Location: | France , Occitania , Ariege department , municipality of Montesquieu-Avantès | |
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Geographic location: |
43 ° 1 '56 " N , 1 ° 12' 8" E | |
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| Discovery: | 1912 | |
| Show cave since: | No | |
| Overall length: | 800 m | |
| Particularities: | untouched | |
The cave of Tuc d'Audoubert ("Tuc Cave") is a prehistoric cave in the French Pyrenees in the municipality of Montesquieu-Avantès in the Ariège department , whose duct system protrudes into that of the Three Brothers Cave without touching one another. It belongs to the circle of the Franco-Cantabrian cave art . The Enlène cave is also in the immediate vicinity .
topography
Today's entrance to the cave is at the exit point of the Volp River . It is assumed that the cave had several entrances in prehistoric times and formed a unit with the Three Brothers Cave. André Leroi-Gourhan thinks that there are two individual cave structures that were used in parallel. Thus, the cave consisted of a single long corridor, which had several entrances and ended in the east with a semicircular niche.
Dating
The dating is based on stylistic comparisons with other caves. Henri Breuil dated this section of the Volp Caves to the Middle Magdalenian IV. André Leroi-Gourhan believed, however, to recognize parallels to Font-de-Gaume and dates the cave of Tuc d'Audoubert to the late Magdalenian.
Archaeological finds
It is generally believed that the cave was used as a sanctuary as there are no traces of settlement or artifacts. In the front part of the cave there are various incised drawings, horses, bison, reindeer and big cats. These are accompanied by clavic signs and so-called "goose-foot wounds". Approx. 100 m below, there are two indefinable animals that Leroi-Gourhan called "monsters". Another 400 m away, two bison modeled from clay have survived . Other remains of clay figures are known. Next to these are footprints that are believed to have been made by children. Jean Clottes assumes that these could have been created during a ritual. Fragments of engraved plaques were discovered in small numbers.
Replicas of the clay bison and some engravings can be seen in the Bégouën family's private museum.
literature
- Henri Bégouën, Henri Breuil : Les cavernes du Volp. Trois-Fréres - Tuc d'Audouber. Tucson 1999.
- Robert Bégouën, Carole Fritz, Gilles Tosello, Jean Clottes: Le sanctuaire secret des bisons: Il ya 14,000 ans, dans la caverne du Tuc d'Audoubert. Somogy éditions d'art 2009, ISBN 978-2-7572-0203-6 .
- André Leroi-Gourhan : Prehistoric Art. 1978.
- Tuc d'Audoubert - Bibliography up to 2005 (5 pages)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Leroi-Gourhan 1978, 410
- ↑ Leroi-Gourhan 1978, 411f.
- ↑ Bégouën 1999, 89-95
- ↑ Bégouën 1999, 96-101
- ↑ BEGOUËN 1999 109
See also
Web links
- Plan of the cave (wait a bit: longer loading time)
- www.europreart.net: Interactive map of France
- www.europreart.net: Cave of Tuc d'Audoubert (wait a little: longer loading time)