[Midisciences 2026] Claudia Defrasne: «Interdisciplinarity at the foot of decorated walls - The example of schematic cave paintings in southern France».»
Date and place : Thursday 30 April 2026
From 1pm to 2pm
Avignon University, Jean-Henri Fabre Campus, Building A, Agrosciences lecture hall
Free admission
Live on V-AU
The replay will be available on Canal U
On 30 April 2026, Claudia Defrasne (CNRS / EDYTEM) will present a Midiscience on the theme :
«L'interdisciplinarité au pied des parois ornées - L'exemple des peintures pariétales schématiques de France méridionale» (Interdisciplinarity at the foot of decorated walls - The example of schematic cave paintings in southern France)»
Southern France is home to more than 150 sites with schematic parietal paintings attributed to the Neolithic period, but little known to the scientific community or the general public. Often deprived of an archaeological context, these open-air sites contain paintings that are reduced to their simplest expression and cannot be directly dated. In an attempt to understand their structure and ancient graphic syntax, and thus their role in ancient societies, the ANR SCHEMA is attempting to develop a study methodology based on an integrative approach to the walls, crossing ten or so disciplines.
Claudia Defrasne is a CNRS researcher at the mountain environments, dynamics and territories laboratory (EDYTEM), and a prehistoric and parietal archaeologist.
