{"id":236,"date":"2012-12-18T15:17:53","date_gmt":"2012-12-18T15:17:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/?p=236"},"modified":"2025-02-02T09:45:21","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T09:45:21","slug":"236-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Originalit\u00e9 du Patrimoine Grav\u00e9 Ubayen"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>En voici quelques caract\u00e9ristiques majeures<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>L&rsquo;Abondance des documents grav\u00e9s<\/li>\n<li>La qualit\u00e9 du support rocheux<\/li>\n<li>La multiplicit\u00e9 des auteurs<\/li>\n<li>La vari\u00e9t\u00e9 des th\u00e8mes<\/li>\n<li>La p\u00e9rennit\u00e9 de la pratique de gravure<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>L&rsquo;ABONDANCE:<\/p>\n<p>Cette petite zone g\u00e9ographique comporte une densit\u00e9 consid\u00e9rable de traces. c&rsquo;est sans doute un des effets d&rsquo;une longue histoire, mais aussi d&rsquo;une fr\u00e9quentation beaucoup plus intense qu&rsquo;on eut pu imaginer.Et puis, s&rsquo;il y a quelques bergers malheureux qui l&rsquo;expriment parfois dramatiquement et avec \u00e9loquence; la majorit\u00e9 de ces gens simples\u00a0 est heureuse-ce qui ne signifie pas r\u00e9sign\u00e9e, na\u00efve,endoctrin\u00e9e-ces gens savaient per\u00e7evoir les menues et parcimonieuses gr\u00e2ces d&rsquo;une existence difficile.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00e9moin, ce GERARDO COSTANZO qui faillit nous lasser: dans son enthousiasme il a laiss\u00e9 son nom \u00e0 de si nombreuses reprises, que nous avions presque d\u00e9cid\u00e9 de cesser de nous int\u00e9resser \u00e0 ces traces&#8230;<strong>Fig 25-26-27<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1040924\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-308\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-308\" title=\"P1040924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1040924.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1040924.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1040924-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1040924-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1060830-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-284\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-284\" title=\"P1060830\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10608303.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"310\" height=\"169\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/2009_10010051\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-309\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-309\" title=\"2009_10010051\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009_10010051.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1014\" height=\"637\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009_10010051.jpg 1014w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009_10010051-640x402.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009_10010051-477x300.jpg 477w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1014px) 100vw, 1014px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jusqu&rsquo;au jour ou nous avons r\u00e9alis\u00e9 que ce \u00ab\u00a0petit Poucet\u00a0\u00bb nous livrait ses itin\u00e9raires, ses campagnes pour finir d&rsquo;une fa\u00e7on inattendue: un jour Gerardo Costanzo devient:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">GERARD COSTAN,<strong> Fig 28<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1160118c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-265\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-265\" title=\"P1160118C\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1160118C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"224\" height=\"228\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>il s&rsquo;est int\u00e9gr\u00e9, francis\u00e9 et il le fait joliment savoir dans le style italien, comme ce berger d&rsquo;Aisone:<strong>Fig 29<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1060886\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-301\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-301\" title=\"P1060886\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1060886.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"175\" height=\"161\" \/><\/a><\/strong>Ou encore \u00ab\u00a0BALBI\u00a0\u00bb:<strong>Fig 30<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/dscf2434\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-310\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-310\" title=\"DSCF2434\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSCF2434.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"868\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSCF2434.jpg 868w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSCF2434-640x419.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSCF2434-457x300.jpg 457w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>.-Un bel exemple ou l&rsquo;Histoire rejoint l&rsquo;actualit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>MAIN FEATURES OF UBAYE&rsquo;S ENGRAVINGS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>ENGRAVINGS WEALTH<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>QUALITY OF ROCKS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>MULTIPLICITY OF CONTRIBUTORS<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>DIVERSITY OF THEMES<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>A VIVID TRADITION<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>WEALTH: this tiny area\u00a0 exhibits a high density of traces.This is probably linked to a long history, but also to intensive visits. If there are some unsatisfied shepherds who cry their poor condition,most of these simple people appear to be happy,this does not means that they are resigned, naive or brainwashed&#8230;these people understand and value the rare and minute blessings of a difficult life.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"color: #826540;\">Gerardo Costanzo was so happy to live in these valleys that he left <\/span><span style=\"color: #826540;\">a number of traces; so many that we attempted to abandon their recording&#8230;until, we realized that he left us an important heritage: his trips and campaigns.<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>And some day he became:<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>GERARD COSTAN !<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Fully integrated, he tells us that in a\u00a0 sophisticated manner.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>A nice example where History meets\u00a0 questions of the day.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>LE SUPPORT ROCHEUX<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>*LA NATURE DU ROCHER<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>L&rsquo;ubaye est un mus\u00e9e g\u00e9ologique, d&rsquo;une vari\u00e9t\u00e9 exceptionnelle et, bien souvent les graveurs en ont per\u00e7u la qualit\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>T\u00e9moin: ce drapeau grav\u00e9 sur une pyramide de marbre rose qui comporte les mentions suivantes devenues presque illisibles:<strong>Fig 31-32<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ISLY<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SEBASTOPOL<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SIDI BRAHIM (en repentir sur SAINT PETERSBOURG)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">SOLFERINO<\/p>\n<p>et en son centre<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">HONNEUR ET PATRIE<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1070288-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-311\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-311\" title=\"P1070288\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10702881.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1076\" height=\"1435\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10702881.jpg 1076w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10702881-479x640.jpg 479w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10702881-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10702881-224x300.jpg 224w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1076px) 100vw, 1076px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1070289\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-312\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-312\" title=\"P1070289\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1070289.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1048\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1070289.jpg 1048w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1070289-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1070289-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1070289-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1048px) 100vw, 1048px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>L&rsquo;imaginaire populaire ne s&rsquo;est jamais lass\u00e9 de la r\u00e9f\u00e9rence aux victoires de la R\u00e9volution, de l&rsquo;Empire et de leurs caricatures ult\u00e9rieures; toujours\u00a0 dans l&rsquo;esprit de ce Capitaine JOLY qui croyait fermement aux\u00a0\u00bb guerres de la libert\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb (voir Fig 5)<\/p>\n<p>Il faut observer attentivement ce document: le graveur a \u00e9t\u00e9 contraint de pratiquer une saign\u00e9e horizontale pour se tenir au rocher et r\u00e9aliser sa gravure \u00e0 la hauteur d\u00e9sir\u00e9e- c&rsquo;est l\u00e0 un am\u00e9nagement in\u00e9dit du support, r\u00e9alis\u00e9 sans le d\u00e9figurer-<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>**SON IMPLANTATION<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Tout aussi remarquable, ce monument de J.P.ARNAUD qui a utilis\u00e9 ce \u00ab\u00a0dolmen\u00a0\u00bb de fa\u00e7on\u00a0 \u00e9vocatrice, en 1808.<strong>Fig 33-34<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/ub7-0052\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-274\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-274\" title=\"UB7-0052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0052.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"301\" height=\"204\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1130249\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-313\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-313\" title=\"P1130249\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1130249.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1028\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1130249.jpg 1028w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1130249-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1130249-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1130249-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1028px) 100vw, 1028px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Ou encore:\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 RIGATTI-<strong>Fig 35-36<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/img_0070\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-275\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-275\" title=\"IMG_0070\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0070.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"298\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0070.jpg 298w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0070-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 298px) 100vw, 298px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/img_0061\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-276\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-276\" title=\"IMG_0061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0061.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"201\" height=\"82\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cependant, le sens du monumental, tel que nous l&rsquo;entendons aujourd&rsquo;hui, reste une exception, encore que tout r\u00e9cemment Albert.Texier nous laisse ce touchant faire-part de mariage:-<strong>Fig 37<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/ub7-0046-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-314\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-314\" title=\"UB7-0046\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0046.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"698\" height=\"478\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0046.jpg 698w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0046-640x438.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0046-438x300.jpg 438w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 698px) 100vw, 698px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Qui est sensiblement diff\u00e9rent de la modeste trace d&rsquo;Emile,son anc\u00eatre &#8211;<strong>Fig 38<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1050311\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-278\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-278\" title=\"P1050311\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1050311.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"287\" height=\"215\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em id=\"tinymce\" class=\"mceContentBody  wp-editor\" dir=\"ltr\"><strong>ROCKS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Ubaye is a geology Museum with a great variety and most of the time\u00a0 engravers understood pretty well this quality.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>This french flag is present on a pink raw marble rock. An attentive examination shows that it was necessay,first to carve horizontally a ditch to enable\u00a0 carving at the adequate height- this is a very unusual fitting which does not disfigure the rock.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>Most of words have been erased, but\u00a0 on both sides are ISLY, SEBASTOPOL,SIDI-BRAHIM (Over ST PETERSBOURG)-SOLFERINO and in the middle: HONNEUR ET PATRIE.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em> In the people&rsquo;s mind ,the battles of french Revolution,Empire and their ulterior caricatures remain vivid and in the mood of captain Joly already mentioned (Fig 5)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>ROCK SITUATION<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>is often important as show the choice of JP.ARNAUD\u00a0 who used this \u00ab\u00a0dolmen\u00a0\u00bb with efficience ;or also RIGATTI.<\/em><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em> But these are exceptions with Albert.TEXIER wedding announcement, quite different from the trace of Emile Texier, his ancestor.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DES GRAVURES CACHEES<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Des gravures dans des endroits \u00ab\u00a0impossibles\u00a0\u00bb, il y en a, il y en a m\u00eame beaucoup, il y a m\u00eame des gravures volontairement enterr\u00e9es, cach\u00e9es.<br \/>\nLaissons \u00e0 la litt\u00e9rature pour kiosques de gare les \u00e9lucubrations\u00a0 magico-religieuses et l&rsquo;anthropologie de salon.<\/p>\n<p>Voici une gravure volontairement enterr\u00e9e.<strong>Fig 39<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1050113-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-315\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-315\" title=\"P1050113\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10501131.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1022\" height=\"767\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10501131.jpg 1022w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10501131-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10501131-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1022px) 100vw, 1022px\" \/><\/a>On observe la trace de la terre qui jointoyait la dalle de couverture volontairement ma\u00e7onn\u00e9e et\u00a0 positionn\u00e9e \u00ab\u00a0dans la pente\u00a0\u00bb ce qui \u00e9limine l&rsquo;hypoth\u00e8se d&rsquo;un effet de solifluxion.<\/p>\n<p>Je n&rsquo;ai pas d&rsquo;explication, d&rsquo;hypoth\u00e8se pour une pratique qui est loin d&rsquo;\u00eatre unique.<\/p>\n<p>Dans le m\u00eame esprit ce \u00ab\u00a0r\u00e9veil-matin\u00a0\u00bb , qui est en fait une montre-gousset qui lui aussi avait \u00e9t\u00e9 enterr\u00e9, qui indique pour toujours 10H22, ce qui n&rsquo;est probablement pas un hasard.-<strong>Fig 40<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Un excellent support aux r\u00eaveries.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/ub6-0011c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-280\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-280\" title=\"UB6-0011C\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB6-0011C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"438\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB6-0011C.jpg 438w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB6-0011C-228x300.jpg 228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 438px) 100vw, 438px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pour faire plaisir aux anthropologues, allons un peu plus loin: \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9poque de sa gravure, une montre repr\u00e9sentait un summum de la technologie; mais est-ce qu&rsquo;aujourd&rsquo;hui un berger irait graver l&rsquo;image de son GSM?<\/p>\n<p>Il y a \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9vidence un rapport pressant du berger au temps.: le s\u00e9jour \u00e0 la montagne est une sorte de course contre la montre, tout au long des jours et tout au long de la saison \u00e0 l&rsquo;alpage.<br \/>\nJe veux bien,aussi, faire allusion au temps qui para\u00eet long au berger, mais je pressens qu&rsquo;on fait alors r\u00e9f\u00e9rence aux lieux-communs qui encombrent la litt\u00e9rature in\u00e9gale sur le pastoralisme.<\/p>\n<p>Tout ceci montre que le patrimoine grav\u00e9 de l&rsquo;Ubaye ne se limite pas au \u00ab\u00a0dit des bergers\u00a0\u00bb, \u00e0 des traces st\u00e9r\u00e9otyp\u00e9es, \u00e0 un concert de lamentations, \u00e0 des commentaires de toute esp\u00e8ce, \u00e0 des bornages \u00e9ph\u00e9m\u00e8res.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>HIDDEN TRACES<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>There are carvings in very unusual places, this is not an exception, there are some ones also buried by the carver himself.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>This may raise inadequate questions about magic practices, religion and poor pseudo-anthropological theories.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>I have no explantion nor theory for a practice which is not unusual here.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>In the same mood the \u00ab\u00a0alarm-clock\u00a0\u00bb, which is in fact a watch which was also buried, shows for eternity 10H22, this is for sure not an accident.Anyway it is a strong simulation<\/em> for dreaming.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>For anthropologists delight, we can go-ahead: at that time\u00a0 a watch was some technology acme; but to-day I doubt that a shepherd would carve the figure of his GSM!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>It seems evident that there is a strong feeling of time importance\u00a0 for the shepherd: the stay in the mountain will be for him a constant challenge against time: all along the day, all along the pasture season. One can also consider the trivial image of the hypothetical feeling of \u00ab\u00a0long time\u00a0\u00bb to spend for the shepherd which is an over-used \u00ab\u00a0clich\u00e9\u00a0\u00bb about pastoralism.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>MILITAIRES EN UBAYE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>*\u00a0\u00bbLE GENERAL NIVELLE&#8230;MENT\u00a0\u00bb-Fig 41-<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/ub7-0076\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-281\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-281\" title=\"UB7-0076\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0076.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0076.jpeg 291w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0076-289x300.jpg 289w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 291px) 100vw, 291px\" \/><\/a>Il s&rsquo;agit en fait d&rsquo;un graffiti en perdition dans un des forts abandonn\u00e9s de ces vall\u00e9es.<\/p>\n<p>Le contexte doit en \u00eatre \u00e9clair\u00e9: la France s&rsquo;est dot\u00e9e au XIXe si\u00e8ce d&rsquo;un r\u00e9seau de bornes g\u00e9od\u00e9siques qui\u00a0 sont scell\u00e9es dans des points particuliers: ponts, \u00e9difices ou rochers importants.Ces bornes , en fonte, portaient avec un graphisme sp\u00e9cifique, la mention:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 NIVELLEMENT GENERAL<strong>-Fig 42-<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1120538\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-thumbnail wp-image-316\" title=\"P1120538\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1120538-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ici, l&rsquo;auteur de la gravure a reproduit avec le m\u00eame graphisme un bien pi\u00e8tre anagramme.<\/p>\n<p>Mais combien\u00a0 r\u00e9v\u00e9lateur de l&rsquo;exasp\u00e9ration qui a suivi en 1917 la bataille du Chemin des Dames:pr\u00e8s de 500 000 morts&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Beaucoup de ces gravures de l&rsquo;Ubaye nous parlent, pire, certaines ..CRIENT!<\/p>\n<p>Et ne cessent de crier, comme ce graffiti crayonn\u00e9 avec rage:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00ab\u00a0ADIEU VIRAYSSE&#8230;.\u00a0\u00bb-Fig 43-<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1070192\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-287\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-287\" title=\"P1070192\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1070192.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Ou encore celui-ci, qui provient des prisons de Tournoux-aujourd&rsquo;hui d\u00e9truites- dont le calque est sensiblement diff\u00e9rent du relev\u00e9 de P.LACHAL et C.NIEDERLANDER (voir bibliographie).<strong>Fig 44<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/dscf2463\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-288\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-288\" title=\"DSCF2463\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/DSCF2463.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"275\" height=\"83\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Krieg ist scheiB<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Rache macht Gott allein<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A placer en miroir avec la citation de Pr\u00e9vert \u00ab\u00a0Quelle C&#8230;la guerre\u00a0\u00bb et cette devise de l&rsquo;arm\u00e9e allemande \u00ab\u00a0Gott mit uns\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">L\u00e0 encore quelques mots r\u00e9v\u00e8lent l&rsquo;\u00e9tat d&rsquo;esprit, la puissance d&rsquo;\u00e9vocation, d&rsquo;invocation et tous ces gens, vous aussi , maintenant: ENTENDEZ-LES!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>MILITARY PEOPLE<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>\u00ab\u00a0GENERAL NIVELLE..LIES..\u00a0\u00bb.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>This is a graffito, more or less in decay in an Ubaye&rsquo;s fortress.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>In XIXth century ,France raised a netword of geodesic postmarks laid in remarkable points: bridges, monuments, rocks. The marks, iron-casted ,mention in\u00a0 typical\u00a0 type \u00ab\u00a0NIVELLEMENT GENERAL\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Here, the author used this mention for a very poor anagram which highlights exasperation of people after the \u00ab\u00a0Chemin des Dames\u00a0\u00bb battle in 1917= 500 000 dead.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Most of Ubaye&rsquo;s engravings talk to us and even more they ..CRY.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>They won&rsquo;t stop, as this graffito laid with fury: \u00ab\u00a0ADIEU VIRAYSSE&#8230;\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>(a fortress at 2700m height)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Also, this trace, coming from Tournoux military jail-now destroyed-\u00a0\u00bb <\/em><em><strong>war is a<\/strong><\/em><em><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><strong> \u00ab\u00a0disaster\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/span> (gentle translation); <strong>\u00ab\u00a0Revenge is a clash with God<\/strong>\u00a0\u00bb \u00ab\u00a0.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>In fact a mirror effect between the famous \u00ab\u00a0Gott Mitt uns\u00a0\u00bb of German troops and \u00ab\u00a0Gott<\/em> <em>allein\u00a0\u00bb.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>The few words highlight the power of evocation,invocation of all these guys.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Now you too: \u00a0 \u00a0<strong> hear them !<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00a0ET LA POLITIQUE ?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Elle n&rsquo;a gu\u00e8re de succ\u00e8s aupr\u00e8s des bergers!<\/p>\n<p>Mais voici un petit exercice d&rsquo;observation:<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIVA IL DUCE<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Un groupe de furieux partisans du \u00ab\u00a0Duce\u00a0\u00bb a constell\u00e9 les murs d&rsquo;une bergerie avec cette inscription: c&rsquo;est presque banal<strong>.-Fig 45-46-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1130325-4\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-333\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-333\" title=\"P1130325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P11303253.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P11303253.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P11303253-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P11303253-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P11303253-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1130326-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-334\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-334\" title=\"P1130326\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P11303261.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1038\" height=\"779\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P11303261.jpg 1038w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P11303261-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P11303261-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P11303261-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1038px) 100vw, 1038px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Un autre groupe a fid\u00e8lement continu\u00e9, mais AU SOL, sur le seuil, sur le pavement et l\u00e0, le message est diff\u00e9rent, puisque l\u00e0, une gravure peut \u00eatre:\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 PIETINEE !&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>ABOUT POLITICS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>The interest of shepherds about this topic appear quite poor&#8230;,they are realistic people.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Here an observation exercise: \u00ab\u00a0VIVA IL DUCE\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>A party of fanatics laid everywhere\u00a0 in the ruins of this house this sentence; a common practice.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Another group laid the same sentence: on the floor and especially on the doorway, there the message is quite different as the engraving can be &#8230;TRAMPLED!<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>DE FURIEUX ORIGINAUX !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Trop souvent l&#8217;emploi de superlatifs et de qualificatifs d\u00e9valuent le propos, quand ils ne trompent pas le lecteur: que dire des \u00ab\u00a0myst\u00e9rieuses gravures\u00a0\u00bb, des \u00ab\u00a0troublantes \u00e9nigmes\u00a0\u00bb dont la proche Vall\u00e9e des Merveilles a fait les frais.<\/p>\n<p>Voici une s\u00e9lection de documents inexpliqu\u00e9s et pas n\u00e9cessairement inexplicables:<\/p>\n<p><strong>CUPULES:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Toute cupule observ\u00e9e sur un rocher attire l&rsquo;attention du chercheur; il est toujours possible qu&rsquo;elle appartienne \u00e0 une gravure tr\u00e8s ancienne. c&rsquo;est aussi le signe le plus primitif et le plus ais\u00e9 \u00e0 r\u00e9aliser.<\/p>\n<p>Voici une s\u00e9rie de cupules tr\u00e8s r\u00e9guli\u00e8res et soigneusement espac\u00e9es, je les calque, car la photo est peu lisible et finalement j&rsquo;obtiens une silhouette inattendue:..celle d&rsquo;un<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">ELEPHANT !-<strong>Fig 47-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1050063\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-322\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-322\" title=\"P1050063\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1050063.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1026\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1050063.jpg 1026w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1050063-640x480.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1050063-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1050063-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1026px) 100vw, 1026px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>On sait que les arch\u00e9ologues s&rsquo;affrontent depuis longtemps a propos des intineraires du passage d&rsquo;Hannibal (et ses \u00e9l\u00e9phants) \u00e0 travers les Alpes.<br \/>\nVous avez ici <strong>\u00ab\u00a0une\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong> r\u00e9ponse!<\/p>\n<p>Mais je ne veux y voir que la malice d&rsquo;un berger<\/p>\n<p>On peut \u00e9galement observer sur la croupe de l&rsquo;\u00e9l\u00e9phant (tout \u00e0 fait \u00e0 droite sur l&rsquo;image) un trac\u00e9, martel\u00e9,d&rsquo;une t\u00eate de bovid\u00e9 avec des cornes en forme de lyre; c&rsquo;est un cas classique d&rsquo;oblit\u00e9ration d&rsquo;une gravure ant\u00e9rieure.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>L&rsquo;ESPRIT<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Voici douze ans d\u00e9j\u00e0, hors des chemins, au bord d&rsquo;un torrent, en grand danger de destruction, nous d\u00e9couvrons avec mon \u00e9pouse Edith et Madame Elisabeth Imbert-Fondatrice du Mus\u00e9e de St Paul-, ce document<strong>:-Fig 48-<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/2009_10010206\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-290\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-290\" title=\"2009_10010206\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009_10010206.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"228\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a>Essais d&rsquo;estampage:<strong>-Fig 49-50-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/img_5602\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-324\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-324\" title=\"img_5602\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_5602-640x302.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_5602-640x302.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_5602-500x236.jpg 500w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_5602.jpg 1021w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/img_5604\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-323\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-323\" title=\"img_5604\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_5604.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"868\" height=\"477\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_5604.jpg 868w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_5604-640x351.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/img_5604-500x274.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 868px) 100vw, 868px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8230;1894 alpha&#8230; V point V (vivat) MAXN (entrelac\u00e9s) point VOX&#8230;gamma&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>\u00ab\u00a0SERVR L&rsquo;ESPRT\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 ligation des lettes I et R , I et T, et esquisse de croix sur le T final.<\/p>\n<p>Quelle pouvait \u00eatre cette voix qui s&rsquo;\u00e9tait \u00e9lev\u00e9e en 1894? et d&rsquo;ou provenait cette citation (les guillemets sont fortement incis\u00e9s&#8230;) et de chercher dans les textes religieux, philosophiques, les encycliques,-et de mettre a contribution nombre de chercheurs.<\/p>\n<p>En vain.<\/p>\n<p>Jusqu&rsquo;au jour ou, apr\u00e8s de multiples visites, photos, estampages, moulages , je notai, largement \u00e0 l&rsquo;\u00e9cart un d\u00e9but de signature: P.MA&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Voici l&rsquo;explication probable: Pierre Martel (voir page 7) r\u00e9alisa a l&rsquo;occasion du centenaire de la naissance de Maximilien VOX, donc en 1994, ce monument en hommage \u00e0 son ami; mais aussi \u00e0 tous ces inconnus, ces autodidactes de l&rsquo;Ubaye qui avaient eux-aussi inconsciemment contribu\u00e9 aux ARTS GRAPHIQUES.<\/p>\n<p>Maximilien Vox, est le pseudonyme de Samuel, William,Theodore MONOD&#8230;; qui appartint \u00e0 une famille illustre avec sa\u00a0 constellation de talents&#8230;.<br \/>\nM.Vox, dans ses multiples activit\u00e9s, fonda \u00e0 LURS l&rsquo;association-toujours active- des COMPAGNONS DE LURE- qui fait r\u00e9f\u00e9rence dans le domaine des Arts Graphiques.Cet \u00e9v\u00e8nement co\u00efncidait avec la fondation par Pierre MARTEL, de l&rsquo;Association Alpes de Lumi\u00e8re; et leur communaut\u00e9 de vues sur l&rsquo;Avenir d&rsquo; un Pays pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 jusque l\u00e0 comme un d\u00e9sert culturel devait cimenter leur amiti\u00e9.<\/p>\n<p>Et la devise de M.VOX \u00e9tait<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>\u00ab\u00a0SERVIR L&rsquo;ESPRIT\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Une devise que nos graveurs Ubayens servent avec \u00e9l\u00e9gance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIVE LE ROI !<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Passons du spirituel au temporel: cette gravure dat\u00e9e de 1879, plus classique, fait explicitement r\u00e9f\u00e9rence \u00e0 la croix\u00a0 sur l&rsquo;orbe: la croix (l&rsquo;Esprit) qui domine le Monde et, \u00e0 l&rsquo;oppos\u00e9: \u00ab\u00a0R\u00a0\u00bb: le Roi, d\u00e9tenteur des responsabilit\u00e9s mat\u00e9rielles.<strong>&#8211; Fig 51-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/img_0071\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-292\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-292\" title=\"IMG_0071\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/IMG_0071.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"218\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Cette date n&rsquo;est pas anodine, elle correspond au moment ou la R\u00e9publique devient une r\u00e9alit\u00e9 en France (d\u00e9mission du Mar\u00e9chal MAC-MAHON)&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>Une fois de plus, la gravure, la trace est porteuse de sens, si on consent \u00e0 y pr\u00eater un peu d&rsquo;attention.<\/p>\n<p>Relier le pr\u00e9sent au pass\u00e9, c&rsquo;est la mission de l&rsquo;arch\u00e9ologue, et ce pass\u00e9, reconnu doit nous servir \u00e0 tout autre-chose qu&rsquo;une satisfaction sp\u00e9culative ou mus\u00e9ale.<\/p>\n<p><strong>DESSINE MOI UN MOUTON!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nous avons tous besoin de projeter nos us et coutumes sur ce qui nous est \u00e9tranger, dans le temps et dans l&rsquo;espace. Si on questionne un contemporain,il vous affirmera p\u00e9remptoirement que tout berger dessine des moutons, des chiens, des loups, bref ce qui l&rsquo;environne.<\/p>\n<p>L&rsquo;ennui, c&rsquo;est que c&rsquo;est bien loin de la r\u00e9alit\u00e9, celle du berger, la seule qui compte.<\/p>\n<p>On pourrait ainsi dresser en n\u00e9gatif un inventaire de ce que le berger n\u00e9glige de repr\u00e9senter parce que, pour lui, c&rsquo;est \u00e9vident, naturel.<\/p>\n<p>Il s&rsquo;int\u00e9ressera \u00e0 certains \u00e9v\u00e8nements, aux id\u00e9es, aux principes et tr\u00e8s pragmatiquement aux protections, en allant \u00e0 l&rsquo;essentiel.<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/2009_10010052\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-325\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-325\" title=\"2009_10010052\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009_10010052-422x640.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"422\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009_10010052-422x640.jpg 422w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009_10010052-675x1024.jpg 675w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009_10010052-197x300.jpg 197w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/2009_10010052.jpg 1029w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 422px) 100vw, 422px\" \/><\/a>-Fig 52-53-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/ub5-15\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-294\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-294\" title=\"UB5-15\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB5-15.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"227\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB5-15.jpg 227w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB5-15-184x300.jpg 184w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 227px) 100vw, 227px\" \/><\/a>L&rsquo;IF, symbole d&rsquo;\u00e9ternit\u00e9 est parfois associ\u00e9 \u00e0 la croix, au \u00ab\u00a0blason\u00a0\u00bb.<\/p>\n<p>Elle est pr\u00e9cieuse, cette s\u00e9lectivit\u00e9, car elle r\u00e9v\u00e8le l&rsquo;\u00e9volution des mentalit\u00e9s et relativise l&rsquo;importance de tel ou tel \u00e9v\u00e8nement<\/p>\n<p>Et puis il y a aussi l&rsquo;auto-censure, difficile \u00e0 \u00e9valuer, peut-\u00eatre li\u00e9e \u00e0 ces pratiques d&rsquo;enfouissement de certaines traces;peut-\u00eatre aussi la pudeur qui fait qu&rsquo;on n&rsquo;\u00e9tale pas ses malheurs.<\/p>\n<p>Encore que pour nous autres \u00ab\u00a0modernes\u00a0\u00bb: un berger ne peut \u00eatre que malheureux , puisque dans sa solitude, il ne b\u00e9n\u00e9ficie pas de tous les \u00ab\u00a0bienfaits\u00a0\u00bb de notre pr\u00e9sum\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0art de vivre\u00a0\u00bb&#8230;c&rsquo;est sans doute l\u00e0 que les anthropologues vont au bout de leur faillite.<strong>-Fig 54-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1060924-2\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-327\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-327\" title=\"P1060924\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10609241.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1027\" height=\"770\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10609241.jpg 1027w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10609241-640x479.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10609241-1024x767.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P10609241-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1027px) 100vw, 1027px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>LA MODESTIE:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>En substance Gabriel Faur\u00e9 d\u00e9clarait:\u00a0\u00bb la raison pour laquelle certains chefs d&rsquo;oeuvre ne sont pas totalement appr\u00e9ci\u00e9s est le respect excessif qu&rsquo;on leur porte\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n<p>Nos graveurs oubli\u00e9s ne courent pas ce risque<\/p>\n<p>et contemplez donc cette sorte de perfection graphique:<strong>-Fig 55-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/ubaye-0462c\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-295\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-295\" title=\"UBAYE 0462C\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UBAYE-0462C.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"429\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UBAYE-0462C.jpg 284w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UBAYE-0462C-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 284px) 100vw, 284px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>FURIOUS ECCENTRICS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Most of the time the use of superlatives and epithets weakens the speach and often\u00a0 mislead the reader: \u00a0\u00bb the mysterious engravings \u00ab\u00a0; the \u00ab\u00a0fascinating enigmas\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 are\u00a0 unfair statements widely used especially about \u00ab\u00a0Vall\u00e9e des Merveilles\u00a0\u00bb.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Below you will find a set of unexplained, but not necessarily inexplicable documents.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>CUPULES<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Any cupule is a matter of interest as it may belong to an old engraving; it is also the oldest and easiest trace which can be produced.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Here I am facing a set of cupules regularly spaced&#8230;as the photo is uneasy to read; I process a tracing and finally discovered<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>AN ELEPHANT !<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Archeologists, since many years bitterly discuss about the way Hannibal used to cross the Alps with his elephants.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>You have here \u00ab\u00a0a\u00a0\u00bb response, not necessarily \u00ab\u00a0the\u00a0\u00bb answer.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>My feeling is that we are facing here the mischief of a shepherd.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>SPIRIT<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Twelve years ago, far from usual ways, nearby a torrent and in hazardous situation we found with my wife Edith and Elisabeth Imbert (Founder of St Paul\/Ubaye Museum) this document.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>To whom belonged this \u00ab\u00a0voice\u00a0\u00bb in 1894? What was the origin of this sentence?.Research in religious , philosophic , encycliclical documents was totally negative. Moreover no specialist was able to solve this clue.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>A few years ago,after repetitive visits, photographs, stamping,casting; I observed\u00a0 far aside the trace: part of a signature: P.MA&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>The possible explanation is that Pierre Martel (see above page 7\u00a0 ) raised this monument in 1994 : on 100th\u00a0 anniversary of Maximilien VOX birthdate.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>This monument is a tribute to his friend, but also to all these anonymous, these autodidacts which, on their side,unconsciously contributed to GRAPHIC ARTS.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Maximilien VOX is the pseudonym of Samuel, William, Theodore MONOD. This family is a celebrated constellation of talents.M.VOX\u00a0 founded in LURS the \u00ab\u00a0COMPAGNONS DE LURE\u00a0\u00bb association -still active- which is a recognized reference in the field of Graphic Arts.This foundation occured\u00a0 in parallel to the creation by Pierre MARTEL of the \u00ab\u00a0Alpes de Lumi\u00e8re\u00a0\u00bb Association\u00a0\u00bb, and their\u00a0 similar analysis about the future of a country considered ,at that time, as a cultural desert,cemented their friendship.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>The motto of M.VOX was<strong> \u00ab\u00a0Servir l&rsquo;Esprit\u00a0\u00bb<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>A motto that Ubaye&rsquo;s carvers serve with elegance.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>VIVE LE ROI !<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Moving from SPIRIT to &#8230;\u00a0\u00bbConcret\u00a0\u00bb, this carving dated 1879, is a clear reference about the Cross and the Orb : the cross (Spirit) rules the World and in opposite \u00ab\u00a0R\u00a0\u00bb the King holds material power.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>This date fits with the moment when\u00a0 Republic becomes a reality when Marechal MAC-MAHON\u00a0 resigns.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Once more the engraving provides accurate information if we pay some attention to it.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>The aim of Archeology is to link past to present; and the recognized contribution of past knowledge must induce something more powerful than intellectual speculation or simple collection.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>PLEASE DRAW A SHEEP FOR ME<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>We all need to enforce our ways and customs to anything which appears to be foreign either in space or in time.If we interview any contemporary people, he would assesss that any shepherd\u00a0 carves sheeps, wolves,dogs&#8230;everything which usually surrounds him.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>In fact this is far from reality, the shepherd&rsquo;s reality, the only one we have to take in<\/em> <em>account.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>It might be interesting to list all topics which are out of scope for the shepherd, simply because\u00a0 they are evident for him.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>He will focus on events, ideas and practices which seem essential for him.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>This selectivity is valuable as it discloses cultural evolution and highlights the importance of some events.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>There is also self-censorship, uneasy to evaluate, possibly related to the practice of burying some traces;maybe also modesty leading to conceal misfortunes.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Four us, \u00ab\u00a0modern\u00a0\u00bb spirits, it is obvious that any shepherd should be miserable, as he does not profit of all \u00ab\u00a0advantages\u00a0\u00bb\u00a0 of our nice way of life; therefore anthropologist\u00a0 reach his failure point.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>MODESTY<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>In substance Gabriel Faur\u00e9 stated; \u00ab\u00a0a reason for which some masterpieces are not totally appreciated is the excessive respect we have about them\u00a0\u00bb<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Our forgotten carvers are obviously out of this scope.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Please contemplate this perfection&#8230;<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong>LES FAUX AMIS:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Pour clore ce floril\u00e8ge voici les \u00ab\u00a0jeux de la nature\u00a0\u00bb, tr\u00e8s nombreux, qui se pr\u00eatent \u00e0 toutes les \u00e9lucubrations et sur lesquels il est permis de r\u00eaver;<\/p>\n<p>* L&rsquo;inscription punique ou runique ?<strong>-Fig 56-<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1050125\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-296\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-296\" title=\"P1050125\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1050125.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"291\" height=\"153\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>En fait une figure d&rsquo;\u00e9rosion.<\/p>\n<p>**Le motif arabisant<strong>-Fig 57-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1120824b\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-297\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-297\" title=\"P1120824B\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1120824B.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"283\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>en fait un lacis de calcite<\/p>\n<p>***Le martelage improbable?<strong>-Fig 58-<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/p1070344\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-298\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-298\" title=\"P1070344\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/P1070344.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"294\" height=\"221\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>est-ce un bovid\u00e9 pr\u00e9historique ou&#8230;le fameux serpent du Petit-Prince?<\/p>\n<p>Et ce \u00ab\u00a0Mange-Mian\u00a0\u00bb-c&rsquo;est du moins le nom qu&rsquo;on lui donne ici; une marelle?, un anthropomorphe?, un cactus en pot?<strong>-Fig 59-<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/236\/ub7-0042\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-328\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-328\" title=\"UB7-0042\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0042.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0042.png 363w, https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/12\/UB7-0042-216x300.png 216w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 363px) 100vw, 363px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em><strong>FALSE FRIENDS<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>Ending this anthology, here are \u00ab\u00a0Nature&rsquo;s games\u00a0\u00bb, numerous , highly favorable to all flights of fancy.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>\u00ab\u00a0Punic\u00a0\u00bb letters or runes ?&#8230;In fact erosion traces.<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>\u00ab\u00a0Arabic\u00a0\u00bb motif?&#8230;No, calcite network<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>\u00ab\u00a0Hammering\u00a0\u00bb&#8230;Bovine\u00a0 ? or the famous snake of \u00ab\u00a0Petit-Prince\u00a0\u00bb?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #826540;\"><em>\u00ab\u00a0And this \u00ab\u00a0Mange-Mian\u00a0\u00bb as said here: a network?, an anthropomorphic figure? or a cactus?<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/4-le-support-rocheux\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"next\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ubaye-rupestre.fr\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/06\/next-150.gif\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"67\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>En voici quelques caract\u00e9ristiques majeures L&rsquo;Abondance des documents grav\u00e9s La qualit\u00e9 du support rocheux La multiplicit\u00e9 des auteurs La vari\u00e9t\u00e9 des th\u00e8mes La p\u00e9rennit\u00e9 de la pratique de gravure L&rsquo;ABONDANCE: Cette petite zone g\u00e9ographique comporte une densit\u00e9 consid\u00e9rable de traces. &hellip; 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