U-Th analysis and rock art: A response to Pike et al.

Abstract

The implicit purpose of the recent paper by Pike et al. (2012) appears to be to clarify or refine the chronology of the cave art of south-western Europe, most especially of the early phases of that sequence of traditions. The following is intended to show that the results they report will not necessarily rewrite that chronology any more than the efforts to refute the dating work at Chauvet Cave (Clottes et al. 1995, et passim) have succeeded in this. The reasons are as complex as a constructive discussion of the individual claims made, and their respective merits, but a small contribution to this will be attempted here.

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