Les gravures de Qurta, Égypte, sont bien paléolithiques !
La revue "Antiquity" de décembre 2011-à paraitre le 21 novembre-donne les précisions sur les datations par luminescence : au moins 15 000 ans ! Datations obtenues sur les sédiments recouvrant une roche gravée.
Maintenant le problème se pose : Y a-t-il eu contact avec ces artistes et ceux de la proche Sicile au paléolithique supérieur comme le laisserait supposer l'équivalence de style ? les précisions dans l'article d' Antiquity, lien (Egyptian ‘Ice Age’ art confirmed).
An interdisciplinary team of Belgian scientists cooperating with Yale University (New Haven, USA) has discovered the oldest petroglyphs in Egypt and for that matter the earliest rock art known so far in the whole of North Africa. By dating the wind-blown sediment that covers the rock art using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), the team has been able to demonstrate that the petroglyphs are at least 15 000 years old. The dating results will be published in the December issue of Antiquity (Vol 85 Issue 330, pp. 1184–1193).
The rock art sites are situated near the modern village of Qurta,
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Incised stylised human figures with pronounced buttocks (superimposed by the belly-line of a large bovid) at Qurta II (QII.3.1)
La revue "Antiquity" de décembre 2011-à paraitre le 21 novembre-donne les précisions sur les datations par luminescence : au moins 15 000 ans ! Datations obtenues sur les sédiments recouvrant une roche gravée.
Maintenant le problème se pose : Y a-t-il eu contact avec ces artistes et ceux de la proche Sicile au paléolithique supérieur comme le laisserait supposer l'équivalence de style ? les précisions dans l'article d' Antiquity, lien (Egyptian ‘Ice Age’ art confirmed).
An interdisciplinary team of Belgian scientists cooperating with Yale University (New Haven, USA) has discovered the oldest petroglyphs in Egypt and for that matter the earliest rock art known so far in the whole of North Africa. By dating the wind-blown sediment that covers the rock art using optically stimulated luminescence (OSL), the team has been able to demonstrate that the petroglyphs are at least 15 000 years old. The dating results will be published in the December issue of Antiquity (Vol 85 Issue 330, pp. 1184–1193).
The rock art sites are situated near the modern village of Qurta,
...
Incised stylised human figures with pronounced buttocks (superimposed by the belly-line of a large bovid) at Qurta II (QII.3.1)
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