The late Holocene witnessed widespread cultural change in northeastern Australia. These
changes incorporated: 1) novel food processing technologies allowing new levels of food …

Abstract The Canning Stock Route Project (Rock Art and Jukurrpa) has yielded the first
radiocarbon dates for rock paintings in the Western Desert of Australia. We report on the …

It has been 18 years since Andrée Rosenfeld suggested that the rock‐art of north
Queensland changed from non‐figurative to mainly figurative forms some 5–4000 years …

We evaluate the effectiveness of non‐destructive portable X‐ray fluorescence spectroscopy
(pXRF) for elemental analysis of pictographs at 10 sites in the L ower P ecos C anyonlands …

Radiocarbon age determinations are presented on three hieroglyphic texts from Naj Tunich
cave in Guatemala containing Maya calendar dates. The ages obtained are on average 110 …

Chemical characterization of the organic material in rock paintings is an important new
direction in directly determining the age of such artifacts. Using plasma-chemical oxidation …

Cueva la Conga is the first limestone cave with paintings and modified speleothems found in
Nicaragua. Dating of images made with inorganic pigments generally requires the presence …

Applying radiocarbon dating to samples from rock paintings is complicated by the presence
of contaminating carbon sources like humic acids and mineral carbonates and oxalates …

Examination of fibers from a colored fabric fragment from Seip Mound Group, Ohio,
demonstrates the utility of sequencing analytical techniques:(1) minimally destructive …

Landscapes are very much constructed within our minds; what we see in landscape
becomes experience. Certain spaces within landscape are identified and become places …