AMS Radiocarbon Date for Precolumbian Caribbean Rock Art

Borbón Cave No. 1, Dominican Republic

Bibliographic Data

ID5083734
AuthorsMarcos García Díez (0000-0002-4135-5145), Adolfo López, Adolfo R Lopez (0000-0003-3116-5150, Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales República Dominicana), Isabel Sarró Moreno, Pilar Fatás Monforte
Year2022
Volume33
Issue3
Pages658-665
Publication date2022-09-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueLatin American Antiquity (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1045-6635 • E-ISSN: 2325-5080
PublisherCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/laq.2022.37
OpenAlexW4224951988
LanguageEN
References cited8

We present an AMS radiocarbon date from a bird image in a cave on the island of Hispaniola in the northern Caribbean. Borbón Cave No. 1 contains a key rock art assemblage that likely reflects a significant part of past native Taíno societies' symbolic thought and beliefs. The grouping has already served to define one rock art style in the Antilles: the Borbón School. Our sample yielded a date of 890 ± 30 BP (1045-1225 cal AD). This result, as well as additional published dates for the region, confirms that these images were created before European contact with the region. Further dating comparison indicates that Taíno artistic traditions persisted for some years after the arrival and settlement of Spanish colonists on the island

Archaeology · Assemblage (archaeology · Cave · Geography · Radiocarbon dating · Rock art · Rock shelter · Settlement (finance · Style (visual arts · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Maritime and Coastal Archaeology · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Geology

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