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First evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa: securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL dating

dc.contributor.authorHuyge, Dirk
dc.contributor.authorVandenberghe, Dimitri A.G.
dc.contributor.authorDe Dapper, Morgan
dc.contributor.authorMees, Florias
dc.contributor.authorClaes, Wouter
dc.contributor.authorDarnell, John Coleman
dc.coverage.spatialEgypten_US
dc.coverage.temporalLate Palaeolithicen_US
dc.date2011
dc.date.accessioned2022-01-04T11:54:21Z
dc.date.available2022-01-04T11:54:21Z
dc.identifier.issn0003-598X
dc.identifier.issn1745-1744
dc.identifier.urihttps://orfeo.belnet.be/handle/internal/9651
dc.descriptionLong 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.en_US
dc.languageengen_US
dc.publisherAntiquityen_US
dc.titleFirst evidence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa: securing the age of the Qurta petroglyphs (Egypt) through OSL datingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.subject.frascatiHistory and Archaeologyen_US
dc.audienceScientificen_US
dc.subject.freeRock arten_US
dc.subject.freeQurtaen_US
dc.subject.freeOSL datingen_US
dc.source.titleAntiquityen_US
dc.source.volume85en_US
dc.source.issue330en_US
dc.source.page1184-1193en_US
Orfeo.peerreviewedYesen_US
dc.identifier.doi10.1017/s0003598x00061998


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