Logiques pastorales du Maghreb holocène extraites d'une anthropologie de l'image

The concept of the anthropology of image is tested on visual representa- tions from the Atlas range of the Maghreb during the Middle Holocene . The objective is to identify unsuspected symbolic behavio urs. By applying this interpretative model to the analysis of visual representations from the transition period between a hunter-gatherer economy and a food - producing economy, i.e. the 6th-4th millennia cal BC, this approach, which invites the discovery of graphically expressed logics, has proven to be well-suited to the studied theme