title: [Spiritual manifestations in prehistoric images].
abstract: Having visited the places of prehistoric cult and cave paintings of the Franco-Cantabrian region, central Sahara, Monte Bego and Val Camonica as well as Switzerland and Austria, the author attempts to outline a chronological profile of the occidental prehistoric art. The evolution is marked by a progressive extension of the mental horizon and of the ability to abstract, the emergence of a more analytical and composed way of thinking, the development of an anesthetic representation power which no doubt were the basis of the invention of writing.
mesh_terms: D001154:Art; D006801:Humans; D010151:Paintings; D011584:Psychology; D014956:Writing
vernacular_title: Sur les manifestations de l'esprit dans les images préhistoriques