Cation-ratio varnish dating and petroglyph chronology in southeastern Colorado

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3267262
AutoresLawrence L Loendorf (University of North Dakota, autor correspondente)
Ano1991
Volume65
Fascículo247
Páginas246-255
Data de publicação1991-06-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00079692
OpenAlexW2464647092
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas18
Referências citadas7

Pecked figures - seeming to depict humans, animals, objects and 'abstract' shapes - are an important and recalcitrant aspect to the archaeology of the desert USA, in the Great Basin and the Southwest. Where they are covered by desert varnish, they provide an opportunity for an absolute dating by cation-ratio method. Here - as they did not for a similar study in South Australia reported in an earlier Antiquity - the cation-ratio dates do seem to run alongside the chronological pattern inferred by conventional means

Archaeology · Chronology · Desert (philosophy · Structural basin · Varnish · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Chemistry · Geology · History · Paleontology · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology