caa a22 4500 463254899 CHVBK 20180405153352.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170326e20070301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10816-007-9026-4 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10816-007-9026-4 Dating European Palaeolithic Cave Art: Progress, Prospects, Problems [Elektronische Daten] [Paul Pettitt, Alistair Pike] Over the last decade several dozen direct dates on cave art pigments or associated materials have supplemented more traditional style-based attempts to establish a chronological (and developmental) scheme for cave art. In the "post-stylistic” era an holistic integration of pigment "recipe” analysis, formal stylistic analysis and direct chronometric dating have been applied to a handful of dates. Here, we examine the state-of-the-art of Palaeolithic cave art dating, with particular emphasis on certain radiocarbon and Uranium-series projects. We examine the relative successes and weaknesses of this cutting edge science. We conclude that there are several weaknesses in current applications that are in serious need of addressing. Issues of sample contamination and of the heuristic relationship between materials dated and the production of the art are particularly problematic. It follows that one should at present be very cautious about straightforward interpretations of apparent "dates” of cave art. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2007 Art nationallicence Paleolithic nationallicence Radiocarbon nationallicence Chronometry nationallicence Pettitt Paul Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, S1 4ET, Sheffield, UK aut Pike Alistair Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol, 43 Woodland Road, Clifton, BS8 1UU, Bristol, UK aut Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 14/1(2007-03-01), 27-47 1072-5369 14:1<27 2007 14 10816 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-007-9026-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10816-007-9026-4 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pettitt Paul Department of Archaeology, University of Sheffield, Northgate House, West Street, S1 4ET, Sheffield, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Pike Alistair Department of Archaeology, University of Bristol, 43 Woodland Road, Clifton, BS8 1UU, Bristol, UK aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Archaeological Method and Theory Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 14/1(2007-03-01), 27-47 1072-5369 14:1<27 2007 14 10816 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer