International audience; As with geography, ceramic decorations are essentially spatial organisations of features. Therefore, they should be analysed with spatial indexes. But spatial analyses, at the shard or the complete ceramic scale, are often difficult to set up, mo...

International audience; Decoration has long suffered from relative neglect in material culture studies, now more focused on the social and cognitive processes behind the object. It has been regarded either as devoid of meaning, with motif names being simply labels, or a...

International audience; Geographic information systems (GIS) have been used to study the Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave (Vallon-Pont-d’Arc, Ardèche) for over ten years, with the support of the Ministry of Culture’s Centre National de Préhistoire (CNP). Their use has facilitate...