Matches in UGent Biblio for { ?s ?p Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the dating of petroglyph panels displaying aurochs and other animals at Qurta in the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley. The method used was optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) applied to deposits of wind-blown sediment covering the images. This gave a minimum age of similar to 15 000 calendar years making the rock engravings at Qurta the oldest so far found in North Africa.. }
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- aggregation abstract "Long doubted, the existence of Pleistocene rock art in North Africa is here proven through the dating of petroglyph panels displaying aurochs and other animals at Qurta in the Upper Egyptian Nile Valley. The method used was optically stimulated luminescence (OSL) applied to deposits of wind-blown sediment covering the images. This gave a minimum age of similar to 15 000 calendar years making the rock engravings at Qurta the oldest so far found in North Africa.".