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The age of the Côa valley (Portugal) rock-art: validation of archaeological dating to the Palaeolithic and refutation of ‘scientific’ dating to historic or proto-historic times

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

João Zilhão
João Zilhão*
Affiliation:
Instituto de Arqueologia, Faculdade de Letras de Lisboa, P-1699 Lisboa Codex, Portugal
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Abstract

The dating studies of the ‘modern rock-art scientists’, when critically examined, are found not to show that the Côa valley petroglyphs are of recent age. Their Upper Palaeolithic characteristics, and therefore their likely late Pleistocene age, are consistent with their archaeological context.

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Antiquity , Volume 69 , Issue 266 , December 1995 , pp. 883 - 901
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd. 1995

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