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- Title
Palaeolithic Art as Cultural Memory: a Case Study of the Aurignacian Art of Southwest Germany.
- Authors
Martin Porr
- Abstract
This article examines aspects of social memory in the Aurignacian mobiliary art of southwest Germany. An analytical distinction is introduced between cultural and communicative memory with different characteristics and functions in Palaeolithic social life. It is argued that the statuettes are reflections of cultural memory, but also stood in a complex and unstable relationship with the flexible conditions of everyday life. The figurative objects are not passive reproductions of collective ideas. Rather, they have to be seen as products of an active individual and intense concern with the field of meanings and associations of cultural memory, and consequently represent individual variations of a socially shared meaningful ideology
- Subjects
GERMANY; AURIGNACIAN culture; COLLECTIVE memory; CASE studies; PREHISTORIC figurines; MANNERS &; customs; IDEOLOGY in art; PALEOLITHIC Period; FIGURATIVE art
- Publication
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, 2010, Vol 20, Issue 1, p87
- ISSN
0959-7743
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0959774310000065