Dating and Taphonomy of Pleistocene Rock Art

Abstract

It has been estimated that the world’s surviving rock art can safely be postulated to be in excess of 50 million motifs, and quite possibly even more than 100 million. These are, however, unevenly distributed around the globe. Most of the world’s major corpora occur in arid or semiarid regions that are not assumed to have supported high population densities. Preferential survival of rock art in deserts is attributable not only to their low rainfall and high ambient pH regimes, but also to th...

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