Les gravures rupestres de Cerdagne (Pyrénées Orientales) de la fin de l'Âge de Fer à l'époque contemporaine : corpus, approches chronologique, spatiale et culturelle

With its 9940 engravings established on forty sites, the Cerdagne possesses a corpus plentiful enough to approach the problems of chronology which arise with this type of vestiges. The most ancient engravings date from the Iberic period in the end of the 3rd century BC, with writings as chronological tracers. The central Middle Age is also perfectly recognized thanks to the clothes and weapons of men and the harnesses of animals. The chronological approach, also has to take into account the phenomena consecutive to the duration of sites. Some of them indeed, show nearnesses or even mixing of motives, a priori from different periods. Envisaged like markers of territory, the sites can be understood according to their relations with specific points of the landscape. Finally, this approach on the specificity of the places of engravings can back up or at least allow to define better a symbolic approach.