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- Title
First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa: securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL dating.
- Authors
Huyge, Dirk; Vandenberghe, Dimitri A. G.; De Dapper, Morgan; Mees, Florias; Claes, Wouter; Darnell, John C.
- Abstract
Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the dating of petroglyph panels displaying aurochs and other animals at Qurta in the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley. The method used was optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) applied to deposits of wind-blown sediment covering the images. This gave a minimum age of ~15 000 calendar years making the rock engravings at Qurta the oldest so far found in North Africa.
- Subjects
EGYPT; ROCK art (Archaeology); EGYPTIAN antiquities; ROCK paintings; PREHISTORIC art; OPTICALLY stimulated luminescence dating; PALEOLITHIC art; ANTIQUITIES
- Publication
Antiquity, 2011, Vol 85, Issue 330, p1184
- ISSN
0003-598X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S0003598X00061998