Dating of Rock Paintings in the Americas: a Word of Caution

Marvin W Rowe

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Pictograph dating has been commonplace for two decades. Many good results have been obtained. But, verification needs to become more frequent in rock art dating studies – at least until a new dating method has been proven. Although I speak here only about pictographs, it applies to petroglyphs as well, perhaps even more so. How can we know we are getting accurate dates?Standards are used to verify experimental techniques. However, there is only one American group of known-age pictographs tha...

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