Rock Art Research

Vol. 37 No. 1 (2020)
Published : May 1, 2020

THE 2017 ROCK ART MISSION IN HUBEI PROVINCE, CHINA

Tang Huisheng (1), Jin Anni (2), Li Man (3), Fan Zhiyan (4), Liu Weipeng (5), Giriraj Kumar (6), Robert G. Bednarik (7)

(1) International Centre for Rock Art Dating (ICRAD), Hebei Normal University, China
(2) Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
(3) International Centre for Rock Art Dating (ICRAD), Hebei Normal University, China
(4) Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, Jiangsu, China
(5) Secretariat of Huangdi Hometown Culture Research Association, Xinzheng, Henan, China
(6) Rock Art Society of India, Agra, India
(7) International Centre for Rock Art Dating (ICRAD), Hebei Normal University, China
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Abstract

The first direct-dating work of rock art in Hubei Province, China, is reported. A series of over one hundred rock exposures were investigated in the Huai River area near the town of Tongbai, a hilly and wooded granite terrain, using microerosion analysis. Cupules dominate the extensive petroglyph traditions and eight preliminary age estimates obtained from seven of them suggest that the majority of the petroglyphs in the study area are likely to be between 600 and 1500 years old.