Paul Bahn's Cave Art: A Guide to the Decorated Ice Age Caves of Europe, published by Frances Lincoln in 2012, is a site-by-site reference work giving the current archaeological dating and description of the major decorated caves, including Lascaux and Chauvet. Bahn is an established archaeologist and prolific writer on Palaeolithic art. Its strength is as a reliable, up to date reference for what is actually painted where and how the sites are currently dated. Its limit is that it is a descriptive guide rather than an interpretive study, so a claim about what the paintings meant to the people who made them needs a separate interpretive source, not this reference work.
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Published by Frances Lincoln in 2012, Paul Bahn's reference work by an established archaeologist and prolific writer on Palaeolithic art, a reliable and current record of what is painted where, treated at the top tier. NotesSite-by-site reference to the decorated caves with their current dating; cited here for Lascaux and Chauvet rather than for any interpretation of what the paintings meant.
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AuthorPaul G. Bahn
PublisherFrances Lincoln
Publication Year2012
Source Typereference
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This source backs 24 claims across the atlas. As facts: 19 well-attested. As cited relationships: 3 holds. Plus 2 entities citing it as a general reference with no single fact or relationship attached.
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- Sources, 8 claims: 7 well-attested, 1 holds.
- Historical Periods, 6 claims: 3 well-attested, 2 holds, 1 general references.
- Sacred Sites, 6 claims: 5 well-attested, 1 general references.
- Articles, 4 claims: 4 well-attested.
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