Dating painting events through by-products of ochre processing: Borologa 1 Rockshelter, Kimberley, Australia. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)
- Record Type:
- Journal Article
- Title:
- Dating painting events through by-products of ochre processing: Borologa 1 Rockshelter, Kimberley, Australia. Issue 1 (2nd January 2019)
- Main Title:
- Dating painting events through by-products of ochre processing: Borologa 1 Rockshelter, Kimberley, Australia
- Authors:
- David, Bruno
Delannoy, Jean-Jacques
Petchey, Fiona
Gunn, Robert
Huntley, Jillian
Veth, Peter
Genuite, Kim
Skelly, Robert J.
Mialanes, Jerome
Harper, Sam
Ouzman, Sven
Heaney, Pauline
Wong, Vanessa - Abstract:
- Abstract: The 'direct' dating of rock art has proliferated since the development of accelerator mass spectrometry radiocarbon, uranium-series and optically stimulated luminescence dating, yet still, most rock art is not directly datable due to the mineral nature of the constituent pigments. Here we present another method: the recovery and dating by stratigraphic association of small buried fragments of ochre and dried paint drops deposited onto soft sediment surfaces as by-products of paint production and use. These finds also give added contextual occupational information for archaeology of painting events. The case is made through the example of Borologa 1, a richly decorated Wanjina rockshelter in the Kimberley region of northwestern Australia that contains buried hearths, grindstones, earth pigments and small fallen spalls of rock containing traces of pigment and paint drops. Results from excavation indicate the beginning of Wanjina motifs and associated painting conventions on Art Panel B1 sometime between 2, 080–1, 160 cal BP and their proliferation in the past millennium.
- Is Part Of:
- Australian archaeology. Volume 85:Issue 1(2019)
- Journal:
- Australian archaeology
- Issue:
- Volume 85:Issue 1(2019)
- Issue Display:
- Volume 85, Issue 1 (2019)
- Year:
- 2019
- Volume:
- 85
- Issue:
- 1
- Issue Sort Value:
- 2019-0085-0001-0000
- Page Start:
- 57
- Page End:
- 94
- Publication Date:
- 2019-01-02
- Subjects:
- Aboriginal sites -- archaeological excavation methods -- dating rock art -- Kimberley -- ochre processing -- Wanjina
Australia -- Antiquities -- Periodicals
Aboriginal Australians -- Antiquities -- Periodicals
Excavations (Archaeology) -- Australia -- Periodicals
994.01 - Journal URLs:
- https://www.tandfonline.com/loi/raaa20 ↗
http://www.tandfonline.com/ ↗ - DOI:
- 10.1080/03122417.2019.1603263 ↗
- Languages:
- English
- ISSNs:
- 0312-2417
- Deposit Type:
- Legaldeposit
- View Content:
- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library DSC - 1797.378500
British Library DSC - BLDSS-3PM
British Library HMNTS - ELD Digital store - Ingest File:
- 22381.xml