Indonesian cave art dated to c.40,000 years old

[AR]

Spotted this on the BBC - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-50754303

I'd be interested to know what the ranges were on the Uranium series dates, as unfortunately the BBC article doesn't quote them and the full Nature article is behind a paywall.

 

[Martin Laverty]

Not all the Nature article is behind a paywall: notably the Extended Data, which includes a cave survey [ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1806-y/figures/4 ]

and the dated items (with ranges) eg: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1806-y/figures/12

 

[Martin Laverty]

Another article and embedded video, albeit 4 years old, putting the caves of the region, including these results, in context: https://www.aramcoworld.com/Articles/May-2015/Cave-Artists-of-Sulawesi

 

[2xw]

Use sci-hub to get access to paywalled papers.

 

[AR]

Thanks for those links Martin - looks like the dates were pretty good, assuming that they're to a 95% confidence interval.