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Cave painting connects us with our prehistoric artist ancestors. But there’s a dearth of such illustration in the Americas. Now a cave in Brazil has been found to house the oldest New World image known.
洞穴壁畫與我們的史前藝術(shù)家祖先們息息相關(guān)，但在美洲卻一直缺少一個(gè)揭示此類遠(yuǎn)古藝術(shù)存在的證據(jù)。不過(guò)，如今科學(xué)家已在巴西發(fā)現(xiàn)了一個(gè)洞穴，那里面有迄今發(fā)現(xiàn)的世界上最古老的巖畫。
The shelter was excavated from 2002 to 2009. In the last days there, scientists exposed a foot-high figure in the bedrock. It has a c-shaped head, two outstretched arms, two legs, and a very visible penis.
從2002年至2009年，科學(xué)家對(duì)這個(gè)很可能是遠(yuǎn)古人民用來(lái)遮風(fēng)避雨的洞穴進(jìn)行了發(fā)掘。最終，科學(xué)家們?cè)谀抢镎业搅艘粋�(gè)刻在基巖上的大約1英尺高的一個(gè)圖像。它是一個(gè)人像，頭部是C形，有兩個(gè)張開(kāi)的雙臂和兩條腿，還有一個(gè)非常明顯的男性生殖器。
Using radiocarbon dating, the researchers dated an ash layer to between 9300 and 10,500 years ago. A hearth found about an inch above the drawing gives similar results. And the researchers used a technique called optically stimulated luminescence on sediment, which also dated to around 10-12,000 years ago.
借助放射性碳測(cè)年技術(shù)，研究人員認(rèn)為該灰層的年齡在9300年和10,500年之間。在該圖像上方一英寸的地方發(fā)現(xiàn)的一個(gè)壁爐也驗(yàn)證了科學(xué)家的這一推測(cè)。研究人員對(duì)沉積物使用了一種叫做釋光定年的技術(shù)手段，結(jié)果也證明該圖畫可追溯到大約10,000-12,000年前。
The scientists say this makes the petroglyph the oldest reliably dated cave art in the Americas. The research was published in journal Public Library of Science One.
科學(xué)家們稱，這個(gè)巖石雕刻的發(fā)現(xiàn)可以證明，美洲存在著令人信服地最古老的石窟藝術(shù)。這項(xiàng)研究發(fā)表在《公共科學(xué)圖書館》雜志上。
Echoes of this style exist in other early art in the region, amidst diverse styles throughout North and South America. The researchers the range of images reveals a spectrum of symbolic thought dating back to early in the history of human colonization of the hemisphere.
類似于這種風(fēng)格的圖畫也存在于該地區(qū)的其它早期藝術(shù)中。它們款式多樣，遍及北美和南美地區(qū)。研究人員稱，這些圖像的存在范圍揭示了人類在該半球早期殖民統(tǒng)治的象征性思維。
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