A NEW MONOGRAPHIC STUDY FROM ATELIER RESEARCH CENTER
Dear colleagues and friends,
Why did prehistoric people produce visual art? What did they want to
communicate and to whom? The general concept that prehistoric art
(that is, what is currently defined as prehistoric art) meant to
communicate something has been repeatedly formulated, but in over a
century various attempts at defining exactly what did not provide
conclusive results.
The analysis of the associations of graphemes, evidenced the mental
logical processes behind the production of the visual output, the
prehistoric art. Both figures and signs are part of assemblages,
rarely they are isolated. Their intended meaning is expressed by such
associations. Single graphemes are like words of a sentence. A
systematic study of the syntactic logic of assemblages and sequences
of graphemes evidenced the repetitive presence of three main
grammatical forms defined as pictograms, ideograms and psychograms;
the syntax of association between figures and symbols resulted in the
definition of the conceptual processes at the roots of the graphic
results and thus in their decoding. The research focused on European
Paleolithic art. This monographic volume explains the analytical
process and illustrates the results obtained in the decoding, that is
the reading of a pictographic script.
Paleolithic pictographic documents reveal trading systems of
exchange not only of edible goods but also of women. Other documents
report on travel and journeys, mythical narrations, didactic tales and
even personal experiences of sexual relations. One of these sequences
of figures and signs is telling the story of the arrival of a group of
people in Western Europe, more precisely in the Dordogne, named the
Land of Bison. They are coming from the east, from a land which is
also named and can be identified. This is so-far a unique Paleolithic
historical document including the names in use at the time of the
human group involved, that of the land of their origin and that of the
region of arrival.
These documents provide direct information on the life and
thoughts of Paleolithic people and open up new chapters of the history
of millennia before the beginning of traditional history. A new
landscape is emerging on the activities, social relations and also
feelings and values of Paleolithic society.
The decoding of this pictographic literature is assessing a
turning point: it is revealing facts, myths, agreements, personal
relations, going back up to over 40,000 years before the official
beginning of writing and history.
Can we consider these pictographic assemblages as a kind of writing?
Are the first attempts at writing millennia earlier than previously
retained? Is history suddenly expanding thousands of years into
prehistory? New dimensions of content and meaning are emerging. The
new analytical method presented in this study can be applied to other
fields of research as well.
To see the presentation of the book:
Decoding Prehistoric
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ISqraQ6BHYR43Y5xkGfrGVKbQyB-VT1M/view?usp=sharing
To see our catalogue:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1nHgY02asSv28zCXKzywHwZgw2AdN5U5R/view?usp=sharing
Cordial regards and best wishes
Alisa
Atelier Secretariat
The book is available on Amazon.
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