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thumb Roc-aux-Sorciers is an Upper Paleolithic rock shelter site dating to the mid-Magdalenian cultural stage, ca 14000 yBP, made famous by its relief wall carvings. The site is in the French commune of Angles-sur-l'Anglin, in Vienne. The name 'Sorcerers' Rock', with its suggestions of pagan rendez-vous, was applied to the site long before the wall-carvings were discovered.〔Rougé (1904)〕 The south-facing rock-shelter at the base of the slopes of the Douce, above the right bank of the Anglin, about 1.5 km above the village, is composed of two geologically distinct sections; below is the ''Abri Bourdois'', a classic rock-shelter site beneath a slight overhang, and above is the ''Cave Taillebourg'',〔Named for the former property-owners, Mme Bourdois and M. Taillebourg. The Taillebourg Cave was formerly referred to as the ''Cave à Lucien Jacob''.〕 a deeper ''vestibule''. The two parts are separated by a zone that has not yet been excavated, kept in reserve. The site was classed a ''Monument Historique'', 18 January 1955. ==Excavation history== The history of discoveries at Roc-aux-Sorciers begins in 1927, when Lucien Rousseau discovered the Paleolithic habitation and identified it as mid-Magdalenian in its culture. He began excavations in the Cave Taillebourg and recovered an engraved stone in which Henri Breuil detected the representation of a mammoth.〔Rousseau 1933.〕 Some years later, Suzanne de Saint-Mathurin became aware of Rousseau's article and decided to explore further, hoping to find some incised plaquettes like those from the cave at Lussac-les-Châteaux, also in Vienne. Assisted by her friend Dorothy Garrod, she carried out a decade of intensive campaigns between 1947 and 1957, and followed more sporadically until 1964. The team discovered carved blocks with sculpted and incised figures, sometimes painted, of bison, horses, wild goats, felines and the figure of a man. It soon became clear that these fragments had fallen from the roof of the ''Cave Taillebourg''. Only the carved and painted figure of a bison (''illustration, right above'') has remained in place. The sculpted frieze was discovered from 1950. It is composed of bison, horses, wild goats, felines, and the headless and footless figures of women, of the type conventionally called ''Venuses''. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Roc-aux-Sorciers」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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