Earliest directly dated rock art from Patagonia reveals socioecological resilience to mid-Holocene climate.
Sci Adv
; 10(7): eadk4415, 2024 Feb 16.
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| ID: mdl-38354242
ABSTRACT
The timing for the evolution of the capacity to inscribe the landscape with rock art has global relevance. While this was an in-built capacity when Homo sapiens first colonized the Americas, the heterogeneous distribution of rock art shows that it was a facultative behavior arising under unknown socioecological conditions. Patagonia was the last region to be explored by humans. While its rock art is globally important, it remains largely undated by absolute methods. We report the earliest set of directly radiocarbon-dated rock art motifs from the archaeological site Cueva Huenul 1 (northwestern Patagonia, Argentina), starting at 8.2 thousand years before the present (ka B.P.), predating previous records by several millennia, and encompassing over 3 ka (~130 human generations). This mid-Holocene "rock art emergence" phase overlaps with extremely arid conditions and a human demographic stasis. We suggest that this diachronic rock art emerged as part of a resilient response to ecological stress by highly mobile and low-density populations.
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MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Resiliência Psicológica
Aspecto:
Determinantes_sociais_saude
Limite:
Humans
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Sci Adv
Ano de publicação:
2024
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Argentina
País de publicação:
Estados Unidos