García-Diez Marcos, Garrido Daniel, Hoffmann Dirk, Pettitt Paul, Pike Alistair, Zilhão Joao
Departamento de Geografía, Prehistoria y Arquelogía, Facultad de Letras, University of the Basque Country UPV/EHU, c/ Tomás y Valiente s/n, 01006 Vitoria-Gazteiz, Álava, Spain,
Cuevas Prehistóricas de Cantabria, Sociedad Regional de Educación, Cultura y Deporte, 39670 Puente Viesgo, Cantabria, Spain.
J Anthropol Sci. 2015 Jul 20;93:135-52. doi: 10.4436/JASS.93004. Epub 2015 Jan 15.
The hand stencils of European Paleolithic art tend to be considered of pre-Magdalenian age and scholars have generally assigned them to the Gravettian period. At El Castillo Cave, application of U-series dating to calcite accretions has established a minimum age of 37,290 years for underlying red hand stencils, implying execution in the earlier part of the Aurignacian if not beforehand. Together with the series of red disks, one of which has a minimum age of 40,800 years, these motifs lie at the base of the El Castillo parietal stratigraphy. The similarity in technique and colour support the notion that both kinds of artistic manifestations are synchronic and define an initial, non-figurative phase of European cave art. However, available data indicate that hand stencils continued to be painted subsequently. Currently, the youngest, reliably dated examples fall in the Late Gravettian, approximately 27,000 years ago.
欧洲旧石器时代艺术中的手印往往被认为是马格德林文化之前的，学者们通常将它们归为格拉维特时期。在埃尔卡斯蒂略洞穴，对方解石沉积物应用铀系测年法确定了底层红色手印的最低年龄为37290年，这意味着如果不是更早的话，这些手印是在奥瑞纳文化早期绘制的。连同一系列红色圆盘（其中一个的最低年龄为40800年）一起，这些图案位于埃尔卡斯蒂略洞穴壁画地层的底部。技术和颜色上的相似性支持了这样一种观点，即这两种艺术表现形式是同步的，并定义了欧洲洞穴艺术的初始非具象阶段。然而，现有数据表明，手印后来仍在继续绘制。目前，有可靠年代测定的最年轻的例子属于格拉维特晚期，大约在27000年前。
