This volume is a major revision and expansion of Taylor's seminal book Radiocarbon
Dating: An Archaeological Perspective. It covers the major advances and accomplishments …

The growing corpus of 'direct dates' for rock art around the world has changed the way
researchers understand rock art.'Direct dating'refers to methods for obtaining chronometric …

Abstract The Lower Pecos Canyonlands was the first study area where the method of
plasma oxidation was employed to extract organic material from prehistoric rock paintings …

This study demonstrates a novel approach to overcoming challenges associated with
obtaining reliable radiocarbon dates for rock paintings. Using two independent methods, we …

This project investigates the use of the sacred landscape at two Classic Period (AD 250–
900) Maya sites in the Maya Mountains of Southern Belize, Central America. It is a study of …

Abstract The Canning Stock Route Project (Rock Art and Jukurrpa) has yielded the first
radiocarbon dates for rock paintings in the Western Desert of Australia. We report on the …

At Cova Eirós, we discovered 13 panels with paintings and engravings that stylistically point
to the final moments of the Upper Paleolithic. Scanning electron microscopy with energy …

Using plasma chemistry, carbon was extracted from charcoal paint samples collected from
megalithic monuments in north-west Iberia. Nine accelerator mass spectrometric …

We evaluate the effectiveness of non‐destructive portable X‐ray fluorescence spectroscopy
(pXRF) for elemental analysis of pictographs at 10 sites in the L ower P ecos C anyonlands …

Radiocarbon dates have been taken on rock paintings that have no organic pigments.
Marvin W. Rowe of Texas A&M University and Texas A&M University Qatar describes a …