The Timing and Nature of Human Colonization of Southeast Asia in the Late Pleistocene: A Rock Art Perspective

• Autores: Maxime Aubert, Adam Brumm, Paul S.C. Taçon
• Localización: Current anthropology: A world journal of the sciences of man, ISSN 0011-3204, Nº. Extra 17, 2017 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Human Colonization of Asia in the Late Pleistocene), págs. 553-566
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Recent technological developments in scientific dating methods and their applications to a broad range of materials have transformed our ability to accurately date rock art. These novel breakthroughs in turn are challenging and, in some instances, dramatically changing our perceptions of the timing and the nature of the development of rock art and other forms of symbolic expression in various parts of the late Pleistocene world. Here we discuss the application of these methods to the dating of rock art in Southeast Asia, with key implications for understanding the pattern of recent human evolution and dispersal outside Africa