AR28: 24 March 2004
Copyright © 2004 by Kevin Sharpe and Leslie Van Gelder. All rights reserved.
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Dating of the Human Use of Rouffignac Cave, France

by

Kevin Sharpe

The Graduate College, Union Institute and University, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA
Harris Manchester College, Oxford University, UK
Oxford Institute for Science and Spirit, Oxford, UK
10 Shirelake Close, Oxford OX1 1SN, United Kingdom
kevin.sharpe@tui.edu
www.ksharpe.com

and

Leslie Van Gelder

Walden University, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Oxford Institute for Science and Spirit, Oxford, UK
10 Shirelake Close, Oxford OX1 1SN, United Kingdom
leslievg@ksharpe.com

Question for this Paper and Further Dating Research

In the Cave

· Get good photos of each of these.

To Include in the Paper

· Patriarch: cave bear scratches over flutings (photographed).

· There are cave bear claw marks over top of a mammoth on the ceiling in the Via Sacra (under a grill). But Jean thinks there are not enough curves or deep enough to be bear scratches (but there are many there deep enough and with pin pricks at their beginnings).

· Scratches in G4 (badgers) are small animals as they are all over the apron of the wall.

· From AR43.htm. Bear scratches (apparently) were noticed over one of 15 large flutings on the left wall of the ??? (not the Breuil Chamber; along the ‘Via Sacra’ in an alcove Barrière didn’t cover). This suggests that people used the cave before the departure of the cave bear from this part of the world (see the right hand side of Barrière 1982: 132, Plate 398; compare with Plassard and Plassard 1995: 7). Frédéric Plassard thinks that a badger scratched these.

Matters for the Analyses

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