NEUTRON TOMOGRAPHIC ASSESSMENT OF INCISIONS ON PREHISTORIC STONE SLABS: A CASE STUDY FROM WONDERWERK CAVE, SOUTH AFRICA*
作者： L. JACOBSON , F.C. DE BEER , R. NSHIMIRIMANA , L. K. HORWITZ , M. CHAZAN
DOI: 10.1111/J.1475-4754.2012.00670.X
关键词: Stone Age 、 Context (language use) 、 Prehistory 、 Neutron tomography 、 Ironstone 、 Archaeology 、 Geology 、 Cave
摘要: This study presents the application of neutron tomography to analysis ironstone slabs found in a late Earlier Stone Age context (Fauresmith industry) at back Wonderwerk Cave, Northern Cape Province, South Africa. These have markings on surface that might be anthropogenic, and thus significant understanding emergence human symbolic behaviour. Neutron proved an effective tool for distinguishing incisions from lines are expression internal fissures rock.
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