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DOI	10.1111/aae.12167
	Archaeometric studies on the petroglyphs and rock varnish at Kilwa and Sakaka, northern Saudi Arabia
	Andreae, Meinrat O.; Al-Amri, Abdullah; Andreae, Claire M.; Guagnin, Maria; Jochum, Klaus Peter; Stoll, Brigitte; Weis, Ulrike
通讯作者	Andreae, MO (corresponding author), Max Planck Inst Chem, POB 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany.
来源期刊	ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY
ISSN	0905-7196
EISSN	1600-0471
出版年	2020
卷号	31 期号:2 页码:219-244
英文摘要	We conducted rock varnish measurements at four rock art sites in north-western Saudi Arabia, including Kilwa and the Camel Site near Sakaka. We determined the areal densities of Mn and Fe in rock varnish that had accumulated on petroglyph surfaces since their creation, complemented by a detailed analysis of varnish samples. We inferred varnish accumulation rates by relating the Mn areal density on inscriptions to their ages estimated based on the type of script used. Applying these rates to the varnish densities on the rock art indicated that the art was produced during two distinct periods, corresponding to the Pre-Pottery/Late Neolithic and the Bronze/Iron Age, respectively, with different artistic traditions, reflecting distinct socioeconomic and ecological conditions. Our dating approach, while admittedly burdened with substantial uncertainties, yields ages consistent with archaeological and historical evidence and it provides a unique quantitative tool to obtain at least rough ages for otherwise undatable rock art.
英文关键词	rock art petroglyphs rock varnish manganese Neolithic Bronze Age Iron Age
类型	Article
语种	英语
开放获取类型	Green Published, hybrid
收录类别	AHCI
WOS记录号	WOS:000577585100001
WOS关键词	DESERT VARNISH ; EARLY HOLOCENE ; PLEISTOCENE PALAEOART ; ART ; SCALE ; AGE ; RADIOCARBON ; DRYLANDS ; DUST ; CHRONOLOGY
WOS类目	Archaeology
WOS研究方向	Archaeology
资源类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.177/qdio/handle/2XILL650/362207
作者单位	[Andreae, Meinrat O.; Andreae, Claire M.; Jochum, Klaus Peter; Stoll, Brigitte; Weis, Ulrike] Max Planck Inst Chem, POB 3060, D-55020 Mainz, Germany; [Andreae, Meinrat O.; Al-Amri, Abdullah] King Saud Univ, Dept Geol & Geophys, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; [Andreae, Meinrat O.] UCSD, Scripps Inst Oceanog, La Jolla, CA USA; [Guagnin, Maria] Max Planck Inst Sci Human Hist, Jena, Germany
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Andreae, Meinrat O.,Al-Amri, Abdullah,Andreae, Claire M.,et al. Archaeometric studies on the petroglyphs and rock varnish at Kilwa and Sakaka, northern Saudi Arabia[J],2020,31(2):219-244.
APA	Andreae, Meinrat O..,Al-Amri, Abdullah.,Andreae, Claire M..,Guagnin, Maria.,Jochum, Klaus Peter.,...&Weis, Ulrike.(2020).Archaeometric studies on the petroglyphs and rock varnish at Kilwa and Sakaka, northern Saudi Arabia.ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY,31(2),219-244.
MLA	Andreae, Meinrat O.,et al."Archaeometric studies on the petroglyphs and rock varnish at Kilwa and Sakaka, northern Saudi Arabia".ARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY 31.2(2020):219-244.