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ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2026

Radiocarbon dating and chemical imaging of carbon black-based Paleolithic cave art in the Dordogne region (France).

Ina Reiche, Lucile Beck, Ingrid Caffy, Yvan Coquinot, Matthias Alfeld, Anne Maigret, José Tapia, Marc Martinez, Anthony Lescale, Patrick Paillet

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Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2026. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

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10 authors.

Ina ReicheLaboratoire de développement instrumental et de méthodologies innovantes pour les Biens Culturels (Lab-BC) Unité d'Appui et de Recherche (UAR) 3506 CNRS-C2RMF-Chimie Paristech/Paris Sciences et Lettres University-Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF), Paris 75001, France.ORCID 0000-0002-9897-6620
Lucile BeckLaboratoire de Mesure du Carbone 14 (LMC14), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), CNRS, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ASNR), Ministère de la Culture, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91190, France.ORCID 0000-0003-4005-0937
Ingrid CaffyLaboratoire de Mesure du Carbone 14 (LMC14), Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement (LSCE), French Alternative Energies and Atomic Energy Commission (CEA), CNRS, Institut de recherche pour le développement (IRD), Nuclear Safety and Radiation Protection (ASNR), Ministère de la Culture, Université Paris-Saclay, Gif-sur-Yvette 91190, France.
Yvan CoquinotResearch department, Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF), Louvre Palace, Paris 75001, France.ORCID 0009-0003-8694-6883
Matthias AlfeldDepartment of Material Science and Engineering, Delft University of Technology, Delft 2628 CD, the Netherlands.ORCID 0000-0001-7974-9564
Anne MaigretResearch department, Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF), Louvre Palace, Paris 75001, France.
José TapiaLaboratoire de développement instrumental et de méthodologies innovantes pour les Biens Culturels (Lab-BC) Unité d'Appui et de Recherche (UAR) 3506 CNRS-C2RMF-Chimie Paristech/Paris Sciences et Lettres University-Centre de recherche et de restauration des musées de France (C2RMF), Paris 75001, France.ORCID 0000-0002-7598-8338
Marc MartinezCentre des monuments nationaux (CMN), Sites préhistoriques de la Vallée de la Vézère, Les Eyzies 24620, France.ORCID 0009-0005-3579-8758
Anthony LescaleCentre des monuments nationaux (CMN), Sites préhistoriques de la Vallée de la Vézère, Les Eyzies 24620, France.
Patrick PailletComportements humains et dynamiques culturelles au Pléistocène en Eurasie et en Afrique du Nord (ComE) team, Histoire naturelle des Humanités préhistoriques (HNHP) - Unité mixte de recherche (UMR) 7194 CNRS - Muséum National d'Histoire Naturelle (MNHN), Paris 75116, France.ORCID 0000-0001-6975-4343

Funding

Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) ANR-20-CE29-0018
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Paleolithic parietal art in the Dordogne, Southwestern France, was known to present representations solely made with mineral coloring matters. We found a significant number of carbon black-based figures in the galleries of the Font-de-Gaume cave in Les Eyzies, Dordogne, Southern France [I. Reiche, Y. Coquinot, A. Trosseau, A. Maigret,

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CavesRadiometric DatingSootAnimalsArchaeologyCarbon RadioisotopesFranceHumansCarbon RadioisotopesSoot14C AMS datingcarbon black-based pigmentFont-de-Gaume cavePaleolithic cave artReflectance imaging spectroscopy

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PMID41802084
PMCPMC13012072

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