Personnages masculins, signes anthropomorphes et expression graphique schématique au Néolithique dans le sud de la France

To analyze human walled and rocked presentations is the opportunity to come back on the nature of the schematic process, this type of graphic expression, which plays at the same time on form and on contents of figures. The male figure represents one of the five great categories of figures of the iconographic Neolithic corpus and is also subjected to a large diversity of graphic versions, since identifiable presentations up to unintelligible signs. This diversity is taken into account by no taxonomy since it results at once, of a graphic bias, of mental schemata, of cultural competences and the context of elaboration of figures. The process of simplification of the male figure passes however by the bodily schema of this one. The signification of its line on the rock is perhaps to link up with the passage of his author on and by the site as part of transition rites.