Papers by Jean-Michel GENESTE
Techniques & culture, 2010
Science (New York, N.Y.), Jan 21, 2018
Hoffmann (Reports, 23 February 2018, p. 912) report the discovery of parietal art older than 64,8... more Hoffmann (Reports, 23 February 2018, p. 912) report the discovery of parietal art older than 64,800 years and attributed to Neanderthals, at least 25 millennia before the oldest parietal art ever found. Instead, critical evaluation of their geochronological data seems to provide stronger support for an age of 47,000 years, which is much more consistent with the archaeological background in hand.
The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia
Western Arnhem Land in northern Australia has the rare distinction, both at national and global s... more Western Arnhem Land in northern Australia has the rare distinction, both at national and global scales, of containing a vast landscape of many thousands of rockshelters richly decorated with art, some of which was probably made tens of thousands of years ago, others as recently as a few decades ago. Yet the challenge remains as to how to date this art, how to find out how old it is. While relative dating methods have been commonly applied, in particular patterns of superimposition and changing faunal themes supposedly signalling changing environmental conditions, we still lack a clear understanding of the age of almost all the region’s art styles or conventions.Other chapters in this volume report direct dates for Arnhem Land art using radiocarbon determinations on beeswax figures with the likelihood that the ‘art event’, the time when a beeswax figure was made, is at most a few years different from the ‘carbon event’, the time of the last biological capture of atmospheric carbon, w...
The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia, 2017
The Archaeology of Rock Art in Western Arnhem Land, Australia, 2017
Géraldine Castets∗1, Emilie Chalmin, Bruno David, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Jean-Michel Geneste, Rob... more Géraldine Castets∗1, Emilie Chalmin, Bruno David, Jean-Jacques Delannoy, Jean-Michel Geneste, Robert G. Gunn, and Pauline Martinetto Environnements, Dynamiques et Territoires de la Montagne (EDYTEM) – Université Savoie Mont Blanc, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5204 – Université de Savoie, Campus scientifique, 73376 Le Bourget du Lac cedex, France Monash University [Clayton] – Clayton, VIC 3800, Australia, Australie De la Préhistoire à lÁctuel : Culture, Environnement et Anthropologie (PACEA) – Université de Bordeaux, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UMR5199 – Université de Bordeaux Bâtiment B8 CS50023 Allée Geoffroy Saint Hilaire 33615 PESSAC CEDEX, France Institut Néel (NEEL) – Université Grenoble Alpes [Saint Martin dH́ères], Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique : UPR2940, Université Grenoble Alpes [Saint Martin dH́ères], Université Grenoble Alpes [Saint Martin dH́ères], Université Grenoble Alpes [Saint Martin dH́ères], Université Grenoble...
Australian Archaeology, 2010
Radiocarbon, 2007
We present the first results of an accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon intercompariso... more We present the first results of an accelerator mass spectrometry (AMS) radiocarbon intercomparison program on 3 different charcoal samples collected in one of the hearths of the Megaceros gallery of Chauvet Cave (Ardèche, France). This cave, rich in parietal decoration, is important for the study of the appearance and evolution of prehistoric art because certain drawings have been 14C dated to the Aurignacian period at the beginning of the Upper Paleolithic. The new dates indicate an age of about 32,000 BP, which is consistent with this attribution and in agreement with the results from the same sector of the cave measured previously at the Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE). Six laboratories were involved in the intercomparison. Samples were measured in 4 AMS facilities: Center for Isotope Research, Groningen University, the Netherlands; the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator Unit, UK; the Centre de datation par le carbone 14, Univ. Claude Bernard Lyon ...
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 2016
Significance We compiled a set of more than 250 radiocarbon dates related to the rock art, human ... more Significance We compiled a set of more than 250 radiocarbon dates related to the rock art, human activities, and bone remains in the Chauvet-Pont d'Arc Cave (Ardèche, France) and derive a modeled absolute chronology of the human and cave bear occupations of this site, presented here in calendar years. It provides an insightful framework for the successive events that occurred in the cave during the Paleolithic period.
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Papers by Jean-Michel GENESTE