Quand le renne entra au panthéon du Paléolithique supérieur ?

By means of critical analysis of style of reindeers figures calling on graphic detailed conventions and on their associations with a cattle into that species of very rigorous climate prevail over the others, such musk-beef, glutton and saïga, but also plenty of bison's, as well as horses, it appears hardly likely, to do not say impossible, that reindeers of Chauvet's cave can have aurignacian origin. That all the more as they would be all alone in this case among one hundred sixty-six taking the census of representation. Their comparison with the other reindeers of the different sites generally do not distinguish from solutrian or Magdalenian reindeers and bring together particularly with Gabillou by many stylistic concurrents. If A. Leroi-Gourhan has already established that link between horse and reindeer only appears at Magdalenian, it seems now that it is possible to extend to superior Solutrian in support of representations of our inventory, reflecting climate aggravation that takes place at this moment and promotes plenty of two species in the neighbourhood.