Cova Eirós: An Integrated Approach to Dating the Earliest Known Cave Art in NW Iberia
| Autor: | Xosé Pedro Rodríguez-Álvarez, Albert Rubio-Mora, Fernando Carrera-Ramírez, Karen L. Steelman, Arturo de Lombera-Hermida, Ramón Fábregas-Valcarce, Ramón Viñas-Vallverdú |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
| Předmět: |
010506 paleontology
Archeology geography geography.geographical_feature_category Epipaleolithic 060102 archaeology 06 humanities and the arts Integrated approach 01 natural sciences Archaeology law.invention Paleontology Cave Cave art law Upper Paleolithic General Earth and Planetary Sciences 0601 history and archaeology Radiocarbon dating Magdalenian Geology 0105 earth and related environmental sciences Accelerator mass spectrometry |
| Zdroj: | Radiocarbon. 59:151-164 |
| ISSN: | 1945-5755 0033-8222 |
| Popis: | At Cova Eirós, we discovered 13 panels with paintings and engravings that stylistically point to the final moments of the Upper Paleolithic. Scanning electron microscopy with energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy and Fourier transform Raman spectroscopy were used to identify charcoal as black pigment. Although contamination from medieval fires inside the cave complicates the dating of these pictographs, analyses of unpainted rock backgrounds allowed calculation corrections for contaminated samples. We used plasma oxidation and accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) to directly radiocarbon (14C) date two charcoal paintings—confirming that the images are more than 9000 yr old. As these paintings superimpose engravings, these14C dates also provide a minimum age for an engraving at Cova Eirós that is stylistically Final Magdalenian/Epipaleolithic. This is the first known evidence of Paleolithic cave art in Galicia of NW Iberia. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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