구석기 시대 라스코 동굴벽화의 인물이미지 연구

A Study on the Human-Being Figure of the Cave of Lascaux in the Paleolithic Era

This article is to investigate and make an interpretations of the symbolic meanings of the archetypal imagery of the Paleolithic Era. The appearance of the images of the human-faced figures in the Paleolithic Era is not often. The figures of the human-being discovered in the caves of ‘ Lascaux’, ‘ Les Trois-Frères’, and ‘el Juyo’ serve us to be the decisive, essential and intrinsic clue in establishing the Cro-magnons’s primitive culture. Especially the human-faced figure image at the cave of Lascaux is in a different and special meaning from the other figures of those times. The triangle structure between the figure of a human-being, a bison and a bird described as a kind of a pole, that is supposed to be a kind of spiritual monument for ritual and ceremonies, must have the special meanings that have made us get the academic curiosity. This investigation is to synthesize the narration of the triangle structure above mentioned, the concrete and detail elements of the three figures, and the some analysis of the human-being figures. We’ve focused on the analysis of the characteristics of the figures of human face to investigate the symbolic meanings of the human-being figures and their details, making the point in investigating the human face figures of the cave of ‘ Les Trois-Frères’, and ’el Juyo’ together. The results of this article have the special and specified value as a pilot study and an investigation to recognize the importance of studying the culture codes and the archetypal imagery of the early human-being society, and to serve the future studies about the cultures of the Paleolithic Era that contains the potential elements with which we could approach to the appropriate methods to understand the original forms, ways of behaving, thingking, and living of the human-being at those times when the act of describing figures had a special meanings.