Results from the first intensive dating program for pigment art in the Australian arid zone: insights into recent social complexity

McDonald, Jo; Steelman, Karen L.; Veth, Peter; Mackey, Jeremy D.; Loewen, Josh; Thurber, Casey R.; Guilderson, T. P.

doi:10.1016/j.jas.2014.03.012

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“…The direct-dating of pigment rock art in the Western Desert was a significant outcome of the ARC Canning Stock Route: Rock art and Jukurrpa Project [ 6 ]. All Karnatukul pigment dates were derived from charcoal pigment art sampled in 2005, after a site visit in 2004 with custodians to seek necessary permissions.…”

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“…Re-excavation of the site aimed to contextualise the recent painted art production ( Fig 1 ) and to refine the occupational sequence. Direct-dating of pigments has shown this art production took place between 800–200 years ago [ 6 ]. To explore the contemporaneity of rock art production with other occupation evidence we re-carried out targeted excavations of the deposit.…”

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Karnatukul (Serpent’s Glen): A new chronology for the oldest site in Australia’s Western Desert

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The re-excavation of Karnatukul (Serpent’s Glen) has provided evidence for the human occupation of the Australian Western Desert to before 47,830 cal. BP (modelled median age). This new sequence is 20,000 years older than the previous known age for occupation at this site. Re-excavation of Karnatukul aimed to contextualise the site’s painted art assemblage. We report on analyses of assemblages of stone artefacts and pigment art, pigment fragments, anthracology, new radiocarbon dates and detailed sediment analyses. Combined these add significantly to our understanding of this earliest occupation of Australia’s Western Desert. The large lithic assemblage of over 25,000 artefacts includes a symmetrical geometric backed artefact dated to 45,570–41,650 cal. BP. The assemblage includes other evidence for hafting technology in its earliest phase of occupation. This research recalibrates the earliest Pleistocene occupation of Australia’s desert core and confirms that people remained in this part of the arid zone during the Last Glacial Maximum. Changes in occupation intensity are demonstrated throughout the sequence: at the late Pleistocene/Holocene transition, the mid-Holocene and then during the last millennium. Karnatukul documents intensive site use with a range of occupation activities and different signalling behaviours during the last 1,000 years. This correlation of rock art and occupation evidence refines our understanding of how Western Desert peoples have inscribed their landscapes in the recent past, while the newly described occupation sequence highlights the dynamic adaptive culture of the first Australians, supporting arguments for their rapid very early migration from the coasts and northern tropics throughout the arid interior of the continent.

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Karnatukul (Serpent’s Glen): A new chronology for the oldest site in Australia’s Western Desert

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“…Bringing art "off the rocks" to engage with social contexts of production is now becoming a trademark of advanced Australian practice (e.g. McDonald et al 2014).…”

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Hiri: Archaeology of Long‐Distance Maritime Trade along the South Coast of Papua New Guinea By Robert John Skelly and Bruno David University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2017 ISBN: 9780824853662. Pp. xxxv + 570. USD85 (hb).

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Archaeology in Oceania

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“…S) general, estos trabajos y sus resultados han permitido abordar nuevas preguntas en relación con las cadenas operativas, el simbolismo de las materias primas, la historia de las pinturas y sus dinámicas de alteración (p. e. Ford et al 1994;Edwards 2002;Tomasini et al 2012a;Sepúlveda et al 2013aSepúlveda et al y 2013bDaher et al 2013), así como la obtención de dataciones absolutas (p. e. Steelman & Rowe 2012;Steelman et al 2012;McDonald et al 2014;Troncoso et al 2015). En Chile, los estudios sobre pigmentos en pinturas rupestres se han concentrado en el norte grande, con algunos trabajos en Chile central y Patagonia (Mena 1983;Niemeyer & León 2001;Sepúlveda 2009Sepúlveda , 2010Sepúlveda , 2011Sepúlveda et al 2012Sepúlveda et al , 2013aSepúlveda et al , 2013bSepúlveda et al , 2014.…”

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Pinturas Rupestres en el Norte Semiárido de Chile: Una primera aproximación físico-química desde la Cuenca del Río Limarí (30° Lat. S)

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Results from the first intensive dating program for pigment art in the Australian arid zone: insights into recent social complexity

Cited by 37 publications

References 26 publications

Karnatukul (Serpent’s Glen): A new chronology for the oldest site in Australia’s Western Desert

Karnatukul (Serpent’s Glen): A new chronology for the oldest site in Australia’s Western Desert

Hiri: Archaeology of Long‐Distance Maritime Trade along the South Coast of Papua New Guinea By Robert John Skelly and Bruno David University of Hawai'i Press, Honolulu, 2017 ISBN: 9780824853662. Pp. xxxv + 570. USD85 (hb).

Pinturas Rupestres en el Norte Semiárido de Chile: Una primera aproximación físico-química desde la Cuenca del Río Limarí (30° Lat. S)

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