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<< Events >> British Rock-Art Group Conference - Saturday 23 April 2005

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The 2nd Annual BR-AG Conference will be held at the University of Bristol,Dept of Archaeology & Anthropology, 43 Woodland Road, Clifton, Bristol, on Saturday 23 April 2005 10.00 a.m. – 5 p.m. Also a Sunday Fieldtrip to Cheddar Gorge/Burrington Combe on 24th April.

There will be lectures all day from some of the most renowned speakers in the rock art world and a field trip on the Sunday – guaranteed to be a great weekend. Speakers include: George Nash, Graham Mullen, Linda Wilson, Aron Mazel, Clive Waddington, Christopher Chippindale, Tertia Barnett, and Margarita Diaz-Andreu

Conference fee of £5 to include refreshments.

Contact: Paula Gardner, CHE, Dept. of Archaeology & Anthropology, 43 Woodland Road, Bristol, BS8 1UU
Tel: 0117 954 6071
Email: [email protected]

Note: Is anyone going to this - it sounds good. There's a report on findings in the Telegraph, see comment

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Britain's Oldest Rock-Art by Andy B on Friday, 22 April 2005
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Related report in the Telegraph:

Hard evidence that the engravings of women and extinct creatures at Creswell Crags are more than 12,800 years old is published today, making them Britain's oldest rock art.

Creswell Crags, on the Nottinghamshire-Derbyshire border, is riddled with caves which contain preserved evidence of human activity during the last Ice Age.

Recently, engravings were found on the walls and ceiling depicting animals such as the European Bison, now extinct in Britain, female dancers or birds - depending on the view of the archaeologist - and intimate female body parts.

Dating rock art is difficult, especially if there are no charcoal-based black pigments that can be radiocarbon dated, so the precise age is only known in rare cases.

However, scientists from Bristol, Sheffield and The Open Universities were able to measure minute traces of radioactive uranium in thin limestone crusts that had coated the engravings.

These measurements allowed the scientists to establish the age of stalagmites in Church Hole - which contains most of the engravings - at around 12,800 years, more than double the age of earlier, uncontroversial, examples of ancient art.

The results establish once and for all the authenticity and Ice-Age antiquity of the rock art. The results will be discussed by Dr Alistair Pike of Bristol tomorrow at the British Rock Art Group conference in the university.
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