Zhang, D.D., Bennett, M. R., Cheng, H., Wang, L., Zhang, H., Reynolds, S. C., Zhang, S., Wang, X., Li, T., Urban, T., Pei, Q., Wu, Z., Zhang, P., Liu, C., Wang, Y., Wang, C., Zhang, D. and Lawrence Edwards, R., 2021. Earliest parietal art: hominin hand and foot traces from the middle Pleistocene of Tibet. Science Bulletin, 66 (24), 2506 - 2515.
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scib.2021.09.001
Abstract
At Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau we report a series of hand and foot impressions that appear to have been intentionally placed on the surface of a unit of soft travertine. The travertine was deposited by water from a hot spring which is now inactive and as the travertine lithified it preserved the traces. On the basis of the sizes of the hand and foot traces, we suggest that two track-makers were involved and were likely children. We interpret this event as a deliberate artistic act that created a work of parietal art. The travertine unit on which the traces were imprinted dates to between ∼169 and 226 ka BP. This would make the site the earliest currently known example of parietal art in the world and would also provide the earliest evidence discovered to date for hominins on the High Tibetan Plateau (above 4000 m a.s.l.). This remarkable discovery adds to the body of research that identifies children as some of the earliest artists within the genus Homo.
Item Type: | Article |
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ISSN: | 2095-9273 |
Uncontrolled Keywords: | Tibet; Parietal art; Ichnology; Hominin |
Group: | Faculty of Science & Technology |
ID Code: | 36407 |
Deposited By: | Symplectic RT2 |
Deposited On: | 20 Dec 2021 14:48 |
Last Modified: | 14 Mar 2022 14:31 |
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