RT Journal Article
T1 AMS Radiocarbon Date for Precolumbian Caribbean Rock Art: Borbón Cave No. 1, Dominican Republic
A1 García Diez, Marcos
A1 López, Adolfo
A1 Sarró Moreno, Isabel
A1 Fatás Monforte, Pilar
AB We present an AMS radiocarbon date from a bird image in a cave on the island of Hispaniola in the northern Caribbean. Borbón Cave No. 1 contains a key rock art assemblage that likely reflects a significant part of past native Taíno societies’ symbolic thought and beliefs. The grouping has already served to define one rock art style in the Antilles: the Borbón School. Our sample yielded a date of 890 ± 30 BP (1045–1225 cal AD). This result, as well as additional published dates for the region, confirms that these images were created before European contact with the region. Further dating comparison indicates that Taíno artistic traditions persisted for some years after the arrival and settlement of Spanish colonists on the island.
PB Cambridge University Press
SN 1045-6635
YR 2022
FD 2022-04-27
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71551
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/71551
LA eng
NO CRUE-CSIC (Acuerdos Transformativos 2022)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 21 sept 2024