Earliest parietal art:hominin hand and foot traces from the middle Pleistocene of Tibet

作     者：David D.Zhang Matthew R.Bennett Hai Cheng Leibin Wang Haiwei Zhang Sally C.Reynolds Shengda Zhang Xiaoqing Wang Teng Li Tommy Urban Qing Pei Zhifeng Wu Pu Zhang Chunru Liu Yafeng Wang Cong Wang Dongju Zhang R.Lawrence Edwards 章典;Matthew R.Bennett;程海;王蕾彬;张海伟;Sally C.Reynolds;张盛达;王晓晴;李腾;Tommy Urban;裴卿;吴志峰;张普;刘春茹;汪亚峰;王聪;张冬菊;R.Lawrence Edwards

作者机构：School of Geography and Remote SensingGuangzhou UniversityGuangzhou 510006China Center for Excellence in Tibetan Plateau Earth Sciences and Institute of Tibetan Plateau ResearchChinese Academy of SciencesBeijing 100101China Department of Life and Environmental SciencesBournemouth UniversityTalbot CampusFern BarrowPoole BH125BBUK Institute of Global Environmental ChangeXi’an Jiaotong UniversityXi’an 710054China Department of Earth SciencesUniversity of Hong KongHong KongChina Department of Archaeology and AnthropologyBournemouth UniversityFern BarrowPoole BH125BBUK Department of ClassicsTree-ring LaboratoryCornell UniversityIthacaNY 14853-3201USA Department of Social SciencesEducation University of Hong KongHong KongChina State Key Laboratory of Earthquake DynamicsInstitute of GeologyChina Earthquake AdministrationBeijing 100029China School of EconomicsJinan UniversityGuangzhou 510006China Key Laboratory of Western China’s Environmental Systems(Ministry of Education)College of Earth and Environmental SciencesLanzhou UniversityLanzhou 730000China Department of Earth and Environmental SciencesUniversity of MinnesotaMinneapolisMN 55455USA 

出 版 物：《Science Bulletin》 (科学通报（英文版）)

年 卷 期：2021年第66卷第24期

页      面：2506-2515,M0004页

核心收录：

学科分类：0601[历史学-考古学] 060107[历史学-文化遗产与博物馆] 06[历史学] 07[理学] 060109[历史学-专门考古] 08[工学] 0705[理学-地理学] 070501[理学-自然地理学] 

基　　金：supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(41971110 and 41888101) the Second Tibetan Plateau Scientific Expedition and Research Program(2019QZKK0601) the Early Career Scheme of Research Grants Council of Hong Kong(28300717) 

主　　题：Tibet Parietal art Ichnology Hominin 

摘      要：At Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau we report a series of hand and foot impressions that appear to have been intentionally placed on the surface of a unit of soft *** travertine was deposited by water from a hot spring which is now inactive and as the travertine lithified it preserved the *** the basis of the sizes of the hand and foot traces,we suggest that two track-makers were involved and were likely *** interpret this event as a deliberate artistic act that created a work of parietal *** travertine unit on which the traces were imprinted dates to between~169 and 226 ka *** would make the site the earliest currently known example of parietal art in the world and would also provide the earliest evidence discovered to date for hominins on the High Tibetan Plateau(above 4000 m a.s.l.).This remarkable discovery adds to the body of research that identifies children as some of the earliest artists within the genus Homo.