Digital Technology in Research and Documentation of Hunter-Gatherer Rock Art in South Africa
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DOI: 10.1007/s10437-018-9296-0
Abstract: The use of digital technology to enhance and manipulate photographs of rock paintings affords researchers insights into imagery that was formerly invisible or obscure. Image enhancement and manipulation software have greatly increased the data set… read more here.
Keywords: digital technology; research; rock art; art ... See more keywords
The Style of Blugzeimat and the “Masks” of the Prehistoric Rock Art of the Western Sahara: New Evidence for Long-Distance Contacts
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DOI: 10.1007/s10437-018-9315-1
Abstract: Blugzeimat is a prehistoric rock-art site in the Tiris region (southern Western Sahara), with more than 100 engraved slabs. The major portion of these engravings represents zoomorphs, anthropomorphs and non-figurative signs. Based on the absence… read more here.
Keywords: western sahara; prehistoric rock; rock art; blugzeimat ... See more keywords
Archaeological Ochres of the Rock Art Site of Leopard Cave (Erongo, Namibia): Looking for Later Stone Age Sociocultural Behaviors
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DOI: 10.1007/s10437-020-09394-7
Abstract: The use of ochre has been documented in many Middle Stone Age sites of Southern Africa. However, the literature on the exploitation of ochre within the archaeological contexts of Later Stone Age (LSA) rock art… read more here.
Keywords: cave erongo; leopard cave; rock art; stone age ... See more keywords
Understanding Palimpsest Rock Art with the Art as Agency Approach: Gell, Morphy, and Laxön, Nämforsen
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DOI: 10.1007/s10816-015-9270-y
Abstract: This article explores how Howard Morphy and Alfred Gell’s descriptions of art as a form of action may offer new insights into the role of rock art palimpsests. The discussion first outlines both Gell’s and… read more here.
Keywords: article; gell morphy; rock art; art ... See more keywords
DARAKI-CHATTAN ROCK ART CONSTRAINED OSL CHRONOLOGY AND MULTIANALYTICAL TECHNIQUES: A FIRST PILOT INVESTIGATION
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DOI: 10.1016/j.culher.2018.09.018
Abstract: ABSTRACT The cave of Daraki-Chattan (in Rewa river, India) bears important palaeolithic rock art (petroglyphs), while the environs is exceptionally rich in stone tools, mostly of the Acheulian. The field survey and excavations in the… read more here.
Keywords: rock art; microscopy; daraki chattan; luminescence ... See more keywords
Relational ontologies and performance: Identifying humans and nonhuman animals in the rock art from north-eastern Kimberley, Australia
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jaa.2021.101333
Abstract: Abstract Even though the study of animal depictions in early art is one of the most researched topics in rock art, interpretations have often been anthropocentric. Rather than seeing how human and animal populations co-exist… read more here.
Keywords: performance; australia relational; rock art; kimberley australia ... See more keywords
The identification of extinct megafauna in rock art using geometric morphometrics: A Genyornis newtoni painting in Arnhem Land, northern Australia?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2017.09.013
Abstract: Identifying extinct fauna in rock art is a common but difficult exercise. Here we use geometric morphometric analysis of shape to examine the oft-cited painting from Arnhem Land attributed by Gunn et al. to the… read more here.
Keywords: arnhem land; genyornis newtoni; rock art; art ... See more keywords
U-series dating at Nerja cave reveal open system. Questioning the Neanderthal origin of Spanish rock art
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2020.105120
Abstract: Abstract U/Th data obtained on CaCO3 layers covering rock art at Nerja Cave (Spain) evidence erroneous ages and an inverse relation between uranium concentration and apparent ages. This open system behavior could be due to… read more here.
Keywords: nerja cave; open system; rock art; art ... See more keywords
Second-hand? Insights into the age and ‘authenticity’ of colonial period rock art on the Sunshine Coast, Queensland, Australia
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2017.10.009
Abstract: Abstract The materials used to create rock art preserve information regarding how and, in some instances, when it was made. Here we outline the field based, geochemical study of three white hand stencils on the… read more here.
Keywords: sunshine coast; hand; rock art; art ... See more keywords
Pigments, binders, and ages of rock art at Viuda Quenzana, Santa Cruz, Patagonia (Argentina)
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2018.01.004
Abstract: Abstract The first direct AMS radiocarbon dating of two rock art motifs in separate rock shelters (VQ1 and VQ2) at the Viuda Quenzana (VQ) archaeological locality in Patagonia, has provided median probability ages of 3190 cal… read more here.
Keywords: hand; rock art; spectroscopy; patagonia ... See more keywords
Cussac cave Gravettian parietal art (Dordogne, France): Updated inventories and new insights into Noaillian rock art
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DOI: 10.1016/j.jasrep.2020.102427
Abstract: Abstract In 2008, the Collective Research Project funded by the French Ministry of Culture undertook the study of the decorated sepulchral cave of Cussac (Dordogne), discovered by Marc Delluc in 2000. In this paper, we… read more here.
Keywords: cave gravettian; rock art; art; cussac cave ... See more keywords