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Ice Age megafauna rock art in the Colombian Amazon? [PDF]
Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci, 2022 Megafauna paintings have accompanied the earliest archaeological contexts across the continents, revealing a fundamental inter-relationship between early humans and megafauna during the global human expansion as unfamiliar landscapes were humanized and ...
Iriarte J +7 more
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The effects of climate change on the Pleistocene rock art of Sulawesi. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 The equatorial tropics house some of the earliest rock art yet known, and it is weathering at an alarming rate. Here we present evidence for haloclasty (salt crystallisation) from Pleistocene-aged rock art panels at 11 sites in the Maros-Pangkep ...
Huntley J +11 more
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Earliest directly dated rock art from Patagonia reveals socioecological resilience to mid-Holocene climate. [PDF]
Sci AdvThe timing for the evolution of the capacity to inscribe the landscape with rock art has global relevance. While this was an in-built capacity when Homo sapiens first colonized the Americas, the heterogeneous distribution of rock art shows that it was a ...
Romero Villanueva G +5 more
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Digital Rock Art: beyond 'pretty pictures' [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 The term ‘Rock Art’ is loosely used in this article to refer to prehistoric carvings and paintings. Rock art research has changed profoundly in the last two decades.
Sofia Figueiredo Persson +1 more
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Datura quids at Pinwheel Cave, California, provide unambiguous confirmation of the ingestion of hallucinogens at a rock art site. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2020 Significance Proponents of the altered states of consciousness (ASC) model have argued that hallucinogens have influenced the prehistoric making of images in caves and rock shelters.
Robinson DW +18 more
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12,000-Year-old Aboriginal rock art from the Kimberley region, Western Australia. [PDF]
Sci Adv, 2020 Radiocarbon-dated mud wasp nests provide a terminal Pleistocene age estimate for an Australian Aboriginal rock art style. The Kimberley region in Western Australia hosts one of the world’s most substantial bodies of indigenous rock art thought to extend ...
Finch D +9 more
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Movimento (ESEFID/UFRGS), 2023 This investigation discusses the relationship between the body culture of movement and two rock art scenes located in the Parque Nacional Serra da Capivara, (Serra da Capivara National Park) - PNSC, in the state of Piauí, Brazil. The scenes depict a flic
Courtney Nimura +2 more
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Time and Mind, 2019 This and the previous (June) number of Time and Mind presents some proceedings from a week-long international conference held at Linnaeus University in late October 2017: ‘Rock Art Worldings: Chronologies, Materialities and Ontologies.’ The conference, which I co-organized together with Ingrid Fuglestvedt (Oslo University) and Antti Lahelma (University
Joakim Goldhahn
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Hunter-Gatherers Harvested and Heated Microbial Biogenic Iron Oxides to Produce Rock Art Pigment. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2019 Red mineral pigment use is recognized as a fundamental component of a series of traits associated with human evolutionary development, social interaction, and behavioral complexity.
MacDonald BL +8 more
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Proteomic and metagenomic insights into prehistoric Spanish Levantine Rock Art [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 The Iberian Mediterranean Basin is home to one of the largest groups of prehistoric rock art sites in Europe. Despite the cultural relevance of prehistoric Spanish Levantine rock art, pigment composition remains partially unknown, and the nature of the ...
Clodoaldo Roldán +4 more
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