The interpretation of puns, jokes and double meaning images in Palaeolithic art

  • Alberto Lombo Montañés Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Área de Prehistoria Universidad de Zaragoza
DOI: https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CMPL.2014.v25.n1.45354
Keywords: Palaeolithic art, Europe, Pun, Double entender, Jokes.

Abstract

In this paper, some graphics units of Paleolithic art are interpreted as visual pun and double entender images. These concepts have already been applied by Barbara Olins Alpert (1992). Other motifs are also explained such as anal or phallic forms comparing jokes with preliterate people.

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Lombo Montañés A. (2014). The interpretation of puns, jokes and double meaning images in Palaeolithic art. Complutum, 25(1), 35-46. https://doi.org/10.5209/rev_CMPL.2014.v25.n1.45354
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Vol. 25 No. 1 (2014)
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