Raconter ou prouver. Récits de découvertes et de non-découvertes de grottes ornées
| Autor: | Sylvie Grenet, Noël Coye |
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| Jazyk: | francouzština |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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| Zdroj: | Cahiers de Narratologie, Vol 33 (2018) |
| Druh dokumentu: | article |
| ISSN: | 0993-8516 1765-307X |
| DOI: | 10.4000/narratologie.8425 |
| Popis: | Starting in 1879, with the discovery of the paintings of the Altamira cave in Spain, the debate over the antiquity and authenticity of cave art developed in Europe for more than twenty years. The length of this debate reveals the difficulty for prehistorians of the late 19th century to integrate cave art into the scientificity regime, as defined by prehistorian practice since the late 1850s. The story of the discovery was quickly summoned to form the elements of a demonstration of another order, establishing a legend that continued to develop, even when the authenticity debate was closed.Faced with this model in which the legend stems from the scientificity regime, the numerous stories of the discovery of Lascaux, Montignac (Dordogne), in 1940, reveal a different configuration. At the moment when the cave was immediately inserted, and without questioning, in prehistoric knowledge, the stories of the discovery had to deal with stories of authentication and analysis of the parietal device, making the Lascaux cave reach the rank of a social myth. With Lascaux, the story is based on an interweaving between scientific construction, event narrative, and storytelling.The two archetypes of Altamira and Lascaux's cave discovery narrative weave a grid of analysis that enable us to address the development and treatment of a rumor that spread at the end of 2013 in the region of Montignac, about a « new Lascaux », said to have been seen in the early 1960s but never revealed and then lost. The process is reversed here : it is no longer a question of telling the story of an unexpected discovery, but of bringing about the possibility contained in the story. The search resulted in a non-discovery, but this lack of scientific validation was not unanimously considered as a demonstration that could cut the story short. The story continues to develop, in a process where telling is equivalent to proving. |
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