The chronology of hand stencils in European Palaeolithic rock art: implications of new U-series results from El Castillo Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
The chronology of hand stencils in European Palaeolithic rock art: implications of new U-series results from El Castillo Cave (Cantabria, Spain)
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10.4435/jass.93004
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发表时间：
2015-01-01
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1.8
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Zilhao, Joao
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Garcia-Diez, Marcos;Garrido, Daniel;Zilhao, Joao
欧洲旧石器时代的手印艺术往往被认为是马格达莱尼亚之前的时代，学者们一般将它们归类为格拉维特时期。在El Castillo Cave，应用U系列测年技术测定方解石沉积的最低年龄为37,290年，这意味着如果不是在之前的话，那就是在Aurignacian的早期执行。连同一系列的红盘，其中一个至少有40,800年的历史，这些图案位于El Castillo顶层地层的底部，这些图案在技术和颜色上的相似性支持了这两种艺术形式是同步的这一概念，并定义了欧洲洞穴艺术的一个初始的、非具象的阶段。然而，现有的数据表明，手用模板随后继续被绘制。目前，最年轻的、可靠的年代确定的例子出现在约27,000年前的格拉韦特晚期。
The hand stencils of European Paleolithic art tend to be considered of pre-Magdalenianage and scholars have generally assigned them to the Gravettian period. At El Castillo Cave, application of U-series dating to calcite accretions has established a minimum age of 37,290 years for underlying red band stencils, implying execution in the earlier part of the Aurignacian if not beforehand. Together with the series of red disks, one of which has a minimum age of 40,800 years, these motifs lie at the base of the El Castillo parietal stratigrapby The similarity in technique and colour support the notion that both kinds of artistic manifestations are synchronic and define an initial, non-figurative phase of European cave art. However, available data indicate that hand stencils continued to be painted subsequently. Currently, the youngest, reliably dated examples fall in the Late Gravettian, approximately 27,000 years ago.