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DOI	10.1016/j.scib.2021.09.001
	Earliest parietal art: hominin hand and foot traces from the middle Pleistocene of Tibet
	Zhang D.D.; Bennett M.R.; Cheng H.; Wang L.; Zhang H.; Reynolds S.C.; Zhang S.; Wang X.; Li T.; Urban T.; Pei Q.; Wu Z.; Zhang P.; Liu C.; Wang Y.; Wang C.; Zhang D.; Lawrence Edwards R.
发表日期	2021
卷号	66 期号:24
英文摘要	At Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau we report a series of hand and foot impressions that appear to have been intentionally placed on the surface of a unit of soft travertine. The travertine was deposited by water from a hot spring which is now inactive and as the travertine lithified it preserved the traces. On the basis of the sizes of the hand and foot traces, we suggest that two track-makers were involved and were likely children. We interpret this event as a deliberate artistic act that created a work of parietal art. The travertine unit on which the traces were imprinted dates to between ∼169 and 226 ka BP. This would make the site the earliest currently known example of parietal art in the world and would also provide the earliest evidence discovered to date for hominins on the High Tibetan Plateau (above 4000 m a.s.l.). This remarkable discovery adds to the body of research that identifies children as some of the earliest artists within the genus Homo. © 2021 Science China Press
英文关键词	Hominin; Ichnology; Parietal art; Tibet
语种	英语
scopus关键词	Limestone; Hominins; Ichnology; Middle Pleistocene; Parietal art; Tibet; Tibetan Plateau; Hot springs
来源期刊	Science Bulletin
文献类型	期刊论文
条目标识符	http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/251215
作者单位	School of Geography and Remote Sensing, Guangzhou University, Guangzhou, 510006, China; Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences and Institute of Tibetan Plateau Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, 100101, China; Department of Life and Environmental Sciences, Bournemouth University, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom; Institute of Global Environmental Change, Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710054, China; Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; Department of Archaeology and Anthropology, Bournemouth University, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB, United Kingdom; Department of Classics, Tree-ring Laboratory, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14853-3201, United States; Department of Social Sciences, Education University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong; State Key Laboratory of Earthquake Dynamics, Institute of Geology, China Earthquake Administration, Beijing, 100029, China; School of Economics, Jinan University, Guangzhou, 510006, China; Key La...
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Zhang D.D.,Bennett M.R.,Cheng H.,et al. Earliest parietal art: hominin hand and foot traces from the middle Pleistocene of Tibet[J],2021,66(24).
APA	Zhang D.D..,Bennett M.R..,Cheng H..,Wang L..,Zhang H..,...&Lawrence Edwards R..(2021).Earliest parietal art: hominin hand and foot traces from the middle Pleistocene of Tibet.Science Bulletin,66(24).
MLA	Zhang D.D.,et al."Earliest parietal art: hominin hand and foot traces from the middle Pleistocene of Tibet".Science Bulletin 66.24(2021).