South American Art

Motta, Ana Paula; Villanueva, Guadalupe Romero

doi:10.1007/978-3-319-51726-1_2914-1

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“…), median = 7660 cal yr B.P.] is the oldest directly radiocarbon-dated pigment-based rock art record in South America, predating by several millennia previously published information (8,9,(11)(12)(13). In all these cases, the ages date the death of the plants burnt and/or used as a binder to prepare the pigments, thus providing a terminus post quem-maximum agesfor the execution of the motifs.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…In South America, chronological analysis of rock art has largely relied on relative sequences based on iconographic analysis with few absolute dates on painted or engraved images (9,(11)(12)(13). Patagonia constitutes the southernmost tip of the Americas and was the last continental region to be settled by dispersing modern humans during the Late Pleistocene (14)(15)(16).…”

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“…Its unique biogeographic context coupled to an excellent preservation of paleoecological and archaeological evidence makes it a primary region to understand the peopling of the Americas and the role of symbolic marking of the landscape by means of rock art (15,17). With few exceptions (8,13,18,19), nonetheless, Patagonian rock art remains only dated by relative methods or by absolute dates on contextually associated remains (11)(12)(13)(18)(19)(20)(21)(22)(23)(24)(25).…”

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The 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 facultative behavior arising under unknown socioecological conditions. Patagonia was the last region to be explored by humans. While its rock art is globally important, it remains largely undated by absolute methods. We report the earliest set of directly radiocarbon-dated rock art motifs from the archaeological site Cueva Huenul 1 (northwestern Patagonia, Argentina), starting at 8.2 thousand years before the present (ka B.P.), predating previous records by several millennia, and encompassing over 3 ka (~130 human generations). This mid-Holocene “rock art emergence” phase overlaps with extremely arid conditions and a human demographic stasis. We suggest that this diachronic rock art emerged as part of a resilient response to ecological stress by highly mobile and low-density populations.

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