How old are Australia's pictographs? A review of rock art dating

Autor: Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Jean-Michel Geneste, Fiona Petchey, Mark Eccleston, Bryce Barker, Bruno David
Přispěvatelé: School of Geography and Environmental Science, Monash University, Monash University [Clayton], De la Préhistoire à l'Actuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA), Université de Bordeaux (UB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Radiocarbon Dating Laboratory, University of Waikato, University of Waikato [Hamilton], Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Savoie Mont Blanc (USMB [Université de Savoie] [Université de Chambéry]), Public Memory Research Centre, School of humanities and Communication, University of Southern Queensland, University of Southern Queensland (USQ), Aboriginal Affairs Victoria, Dept of Planning & Community Development, Victorian Government
Rok vydání: 2013
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Zdroj: Journal of Archaeological Science
Journal of Archaeological Science, Elsevier, 2013, p.3-10
ISSN: 0305-4403
1095-9238
DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2012.08.019
Popis: International audience; Australia contains some of the world's richest and apparently longest traditions of rock pictographs. Dating this art, however, has been problematic, with few 'direct' and reliable dates of Pleistocene or early Holocene age having been obtained from visible, representational imagery. This paper critically reviews the evidence for the antiquity of pigment rock art in Australia by examining the various dating techniques employed. The accurate and reliable dating of rock art worldwide is crucial to understanding the evolution of modern human symbolism and whether cognitive modernism came about after, rather than with, the first signs of full biological modernism; understanding the pitfalls and devising proper methods are crucial prerequisites. Towards these ends, this paper reviews the results and techniques that have been employed to date the apparently earliest known pictographs in Australia.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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