Instituto Internacional de Investigaciones Prehistóricas de Cantabria (IIIPC), Avenida de los Castros s/n, 39005 Santander, Spain.
J Hum Evol. 2013 Oct;65(4):457-64. doi: 10.1016/j.jhevol.2013.08.001. Epub 2013 Sep 3.
The discovery and first dates of the paintings in Grotte Chauvet provoked a new debate on the origin and characteristics of the first figurative Palaeolithic art. Since then, other art ensembles in France and Italy (Aldène, Fumane, Arcy-sur-Cure and Castanet) have enlarged our knowledge of graphic activity in the early Upper Palaeolithic. This paper presents a chronological assessment of the Palaeolithic parietal ensemble in Altxerri B (northern Spain). When the study began in 2011, one of our main objectives was to determine the age of this pictorial phase in the cave. Archaeological, geological and stylistic evidence, together with radiometric dates, suggest an Aurignacian chronology for this art. The ensemble in Altxerri B can therefore be added to the small but growing number of sites dated in this period, corroborating the hypothesis of more complex and varied figurative art than had been supposed in the early Upper Palaeolithic.
洞穴肖维特壁画的发现和首次研究日期引发了关于旧石器时代早期具象艺术的起源和特征的新一轮争论。从那时起，法国和意大利的其他艺术集合（阿尔德恩、富马尼、阿尔西苏尔库雷和卡斯塔内）扩大了我们对旧石器时代晚期早期图形活动的了解。本文对西班牙北部阿尔特谢里 B 洞穴的旧石器时代壁画组合进行了年代评估。当我们在 2011 年开始研究时，我们的主要目标之一是确定洞穴中这一绘画阶段的年代。考古学、地质学和风格学证据，加上放射性测年数据，表明这一艺术具有奥瑞纳文化时期的特征。因此，阿尔特谢里 B 的壁画组合可以加入到这一时期为数不多的已确定年代的遗址中，这一事实证实了比早期旧石器时代更复杂、更多样的具象艺术的假设。
