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Portable art from Pleistocene Sulawesi.
Nature Human Behaviour ( IF 29.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-03-16 , DOI: 10.1038/s41562-020-0837-6
Michelle C Langley 1 , Budianto Hakim 2 , Adhi Agus Oktaviana 3, 4 , Basran Burhan 1 , Iwan Sumantri 5 , Priyatno Hadi Sulistyarto 3 , Rustan Lebe 6 , David McGahan 1 , Adam Brumm 1
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The ability to produce recognizable depictions of objects from the natural world—known as figurative art—is unique to Homo sapiens and may be one of the cognitive traits that separates our species from extinct hominin relatives. Surviving examples of Pleistocene figurative art are generally confined to rock art or portable three-dimensional works (such as figurines) and images engraved into the surfaces of small mobile objects. These portable communicative technologies first appear in Europe some 40 thousand years ago (ka) with the arrival of H. sapiens. Conversely, despite H. sapiens having moved into Southeast Asia–Australasia by at least 65 ka, very little evidence for Pleistocene-aged portable art has been identified, leading to uncertainties regarding the cultural behaviour of the earliest H. sapiens in this region. Here, we report the discovery of two small stone ‘plaquettes’ incised with figurative imagery dating to 26–14 ka from Leang Bulu Bettue, Sulawesi. These new findings, together with the recent discovery of rock art dating to at least 40 ka in this same region, overturns the long-held belief that the first H. sapiens of Southeast Asia–Australasia did not create sophisticated art and further cements the importance of this behaviour for our species’ ability to overcome environmental and social challenges.



中文翻译:

来自更新世苏拉威西岛的便携式艺术品。

能够识别来自自然世界的物体的描述的能力-被称为具象艺术-是智人独有的能力,并且可能是将我们的物种与灭绝的人类素亲戚区分开的认知特征之一。更新世的形象艺术尚存的例子通常仅限于岩石艺术或便携式三维作品(例如小雕像),以及刻在小型移动物体表面的图像。这些便携式通信技术最早出现在欧洲,大约在四万年前,当时的发明人是智人。相反,尽管有智人至少在65 ka之前进入东南亚-澳大利亚,几乎没有证据表明更新世时期的便携式艺术,从而导致对该地区最早的人鱼文化行为的不确定性。在这里,我们报道了从苏拉威西省Leang Bulu Bettue发现的两个小石刻板,刻有具象的图像,可追溯至26-14 ka。这些新发现以及最近在同一地区发现的至少40 ka的岩石艺术,推翻了人们长期以来一直认为的东南亚-澳大利亚的第一个智人没有创造复杂艺术并进一步巩固其重要性的信念这种行为对我们物种克服环境和社会挑战的能力的影响。

更新日期:2020-04-24
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