The earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa: new AMS radiocarbon dates

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dc.contributor.authorBonneau, Adelphine
dc.contributor.authorPearce, David
dc.contributor.authorMitchell, Peter
dc.contributor.authorStaff, Richard
dc.contributor.authorArthur, Charles
dc.contributor.authorMallen, Lara
dc.contributor.authorBrock, Fiona
dc.contributor.authorHigham, Tom
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-28T14:09:31Z
dc.date.available2017-04-28T14:09:31Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-04
dc.descriptionCopyright © 2017 Antiquity Publications Ltd and reproduced in accordance with the publisher copyright policyen_UK
dc.description.abstractRock art worldwide has proved extremely difficult to date directly. Here, the first radiocarbon dates for rock paintings in Botswana and Lesotho are presented, along with additional dates for Later Stone Age rock art in South Africa. The samples selected for dating were identified as carbon-blacks from short-lived organic materials, meaning that the sampled pigments and the paintings that they were used to produce must be of similar age. The results reveal that southern African hunter-gatherers were creating paintings on rockshelter walls as long ago as 5723–4420 cal BP in south-eastern Botswana: the oldest such evidence yet found in southern Africa.en_UK
dc.identifier.citationBonneau A, Pearce D, Mitchell P, et al., (2017) The earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa: new AMS radiocarbon dates. Antiquity, Volume 91, Issue 356, pp. 322-333en_UK
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.15184/aqy.2016.271
dc.identifier.urihttp://dspace.lib.cranfield.ac.uk/handle/1826/11835
dc.language.isoenen_UK
dc.publisherCambridge Univ Pressen_UK
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.titleThe earliest directly dated rock paintings from southern Africa: new AMS radiocarbon datesen_UK
dc.typeArticleen_UK

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