U-Th dating of carbonate crusts reveals Neandertal origin of Iberian cave art

Author:

Hoffmann D. L.1ORCID,Standish C. D.2ORCID,García-Diez M.3ORCID,Pettitt P. B.4,Milton J. A.5ORCID,Zilhão J.678ORCID,Alcolea-González J. J.9ORCID,Cantalejo-Duarte P.10ORCID,Collado H.11ORCID,de Balbín R.9ORCID,Lorblanchet M.12,Ramos-Muñoz J.13ORCID,Weniger G.-Ch.1415ORCID,Pike A. W. G.2ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Human Evolution, Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology, Deutscher Platz 6, 04103 Leipzig, Germany.

2. Department of Archaeology, University of Southampton, Avenue Campus, Highfield Road, Southampton SO17 1BF, UK.

3. Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of Isabel I, Calle de Fernán González 76, 09003 Burgos, Spain.

4. Department of Archaeology, Durham University, South Road, Durham DH1 3LE, UK.

5. Ocean and Earth Science, University of Southampton Waterfront Campus, National Oceanography Centre Southampton, European Way, Southampton SO14 3ZH, UK.

6. University of Barcelona, Departament d’Història i Arqueologia (SERP), Carrer de Montalegre 6, 08001 Barcelona, Spain.

7. Institució Catalana de Recerca i Estudis Avançats (ICREA), Passeig Lluís Companys 23, 08010 Barcelona, Spain.

8. Centro de Arqueologia da Universidade de Lisboa (UNIARQ), Faculdade de Letras, Campo Grande, 1600-214 Lisboa, Portugal.

9. Prehistory Section, University of Alcalá de Henares, Calle Colegios 2, 28801 Alcalá de Henares, Madrid, Spain.

10. Centro de la Prehistoria/Cueva de Ardales, Avenida de Málaga, no. 1, 29550 Ardales (Málaga), Spain.

11. Quaternary-Prehistory Research Group, I-PAT Research Group, D. G. Bibliotecas, Museos y Patrimonio Cultural, Junta de Extremadura, Spain.

12. CNRS, Roc des Monges, 46200 St. Sozy, France.

13. Departamento de Historia, Geografía y Filosofía, Universidad de Cádiz, Avenida Gómez Ulla s/n, Cádiz, Spain.

14. Neanderthal Museum, Talstraße 300, 40822 Mettmann, Germany.

15. Institute of Prehistory, University of Cologne, Cologne, Germany.

Abstract

Neandertal cave art It has been suggested that Neandertals, as well as modern humans, may have painted caves. Hoffmann et al. used uranium-thorium dating of carbonate crusts to show that cave paintings from three different sites in Spain must be older than 64,000 years. These paintings are the oldest dated cave paintings in the world. Importantly, they predate the arrival of modern humans in Europe by at least 20,000 years, which suggests that they must be of Neandertal origin. The cave art comprises mainly red and black paintings and includes representations of various animals, linear signs, geometric shapes, hand stencils, and handprints. Thus, Neandertals possessed a much richer symbolic behavior than previously assumed. Science , this issue p. 912

Funder

National Geographic Society

Natural Environment Research Council

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

同舟云学术

1.学者识别学者识别

2.学术分析学术分析

3.人才评估人才评估

"同舟云学术"是以全球学者为主线,采集、加工和组织学术论文而形成的新型学术文献查询和分析系统,可以对全球学者进行文献检索和人才价值评估。用户可以通过关注某些学科领域的顶尖人物而持续追踪该领域的学科进展和研究前沿。经过近期的数据扩容,当前同舟云学术共收录了国内外主流学术期刊6万余种,收集的期刊论文及会议论文总量共计约1.5亿篇,并以每天添加12000余篇中外论文的速度递增。我们也可以为用户提供个性化、定制化的学者数据。欢迎来电咨询!咨询电话:010-8811{复制后删除}0370

www.globalauthorid.com

TOP

Copyright © 2019-2024 北京同舟云网络信息技术有限公司
京公网安备11010802033243号  京ICP备18003416号-3