Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record

Steelman, Karen L.; Rowe, M. W.

doi:10.1002/9781118253892.ch32

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“…El reconocimiento de los diferentes compuestos en las muestras analizadas, y especialmente de oxalatos en algunas de ellas, abre la posibilidad de llevar a cabo nuevas dataciones absolutas de pinturas rupestres que permitan continuar afinando su cronología (Steelman et al 2002;Watchman et al 2005;Steelman & Rowe 2012).…”

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“…S) general, estos trabajos y sus resultados han permitido abordar nuevas preguntas en relación con las cadenas operativas, el simbolismo de las materias primas, la historia de las pinturas y sus dinámicas de alteración (p. e. Ford et al 1994;Edwards 2002;Tomasini et al 2012a;Sepúlveda et al 2013aSepúlveda et al y 2013bDaher et al 2013), así como la obtención de dataciones absolutas (p. e. Steelman & Rowe 2012;Steelman et al 2012;McDonald et al 2014;Troncoso et al 2015). En Chile, los estudios sobre pigmentos en pinturas rupestres se han concentrado en el norte grande, con algunos trabajos en Chile central y Patagonia (Mena 1983;Niemeyer & León 2001;Sepúlveda 2009Sepúlveda , 2010Sepúlveda , 2011Sepúlveda et al 2012Sepúlveda et al , 2013aSepúlveda et al , 2013bSepúlveda et al , 2014.…”

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“…Las muestras de pintura se tomaron siguiendo los protocolos respectivos (Sepúlveda & Laval 2010;Steelman & Rowe 2012). Se extrajeron porciones milimétricas de pintura buscando alterar mínimamente los motivos.…”

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Pinturas Rupestres en el Norte Semiárido de Chile: Una primera aproximación físico-química desde la Cuenca del Río Limarí (30° Lat. S)

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Bol. Mus. Chil. Arte Precolomb.

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Pinturas Rupestres en el Norte Semiárido de Chile: Una primera aproximación físico-química desde la Cuenca del Río Limarí (30° Lat. S)

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Troncoso

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Bol. Mus. Chil. Arte Precolomb.

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“…On one side, the attempts of precise absolute dating of artworks, widely applied in other parts of the world [105,106], seem to open new perspectives for chronological definition. In fact, while the radiocarbon direct dating of paintings repeatedly failed both in Acacus and Tassili massifs, because of sample degradation and pollution [10,32,57], indirect OSL dating of sediments covering the artworks (in Tassili and in the northern context of Qurta) seems to give more reliable data, giving older results, nonetheless with a wide standard error, which are more coherent with a traditional higher chronology and long developmental sequence [8,9].…”

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Saharan Rock Art: Local Dynamics and Wider Perspectives

Gallinaro

2013

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Rock art is the best known evidence of the Saharan fragile heritage. Thousands of engraved and painted artworks dot boulders and cliffs in open-air sites, as well as the rock walls of rockshelters and caves located in the main massifs. Since its pioneering discovery in the late 19th century, rock art captured the imagination of travellers and scholars, representing for a long time the main aim of research in the area. Chronology, meaning and connections between the different recognized artistic provinces are still to be fully understood. The central massifs, and in particular the "cultural province" encompassing Tadrart Acacus and Tassili n'Ajer, played and still play a key role in this scenario. Recent analytical and contextual analyses of rock art contexts seem to open new perspectives. Tadrart Acacus, for the richness and variability of artworks, for the huge archaeological data known, and for its proximity to other important areas with rock art (Tassili n'Ajjer, Algerian Tadrart and Messak massifs) is an ideal context to analyze the artworks in their environmental and social-cultural context, and to define connections between cultural local dynamics and wider regional perspectives.

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“…For some authors, the absence of clear chronologies in this material record explains its secondary position in the interpretation of the past (Lorblanchet andBahn 1993, Whitley 2005). However, the application of a set of chronometric techniques for dating rock art, especially paintings in recent years, has contributed to adjusting the sequences of temporal development for this record and opening new research questions (i.e., Rowe 2001, Bednarik 2002, Aubert et al, 2007, Steelman and Rowe 2012.…”

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First absolute dating of Andean hunter-gatherer rock art paintings from North Central Chile

Troncoso

Moya²,

Sepúlveda

et al. 2015

Archaeol Anthropol Sci

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We report the first absolute dating for rock paintings by Andean hunter-gatherer groups. Analysis by Raman spectrometry of remains of black paintings from the centernorth of Chile (30°lat. S) allows for the identification of carbon as the raw material. Radiocarbon dating situates these paintings between 1623-1431 BCE and 80-240 ACE, dates that are supported by other lines of independent evidence. These results are consistent with proposals that suggest the appearance and popularization of rock art in various places in the Andes for the temporal transect of 3000-1000 BCE. Finally, these new datings are added to the scant corpus of absolute dates for rock art that exist in South America.

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Radiocarbon Dating of Rock Paintings: Incorporating Pictographs into the Archaeological Record

Cited by 13 publications

References 49 publications

Pinturas Rupestres en el Norte Semiárido de Chile: Una primera aproximación físico-química desde la Cuenca del Río Limarí (30° Lat. S)

Pinturas Rupestres en el Norte Semiárido de Chile: Una primera aproximación físico-química desde la Cuenca del Río Limarí (30° Lat. S)

Saharan Rock Art: Local Dynamics and Wider Perspectives

First absolute dating of Andean hunter-gatherer rock art paintings from North Central Chile

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