Rock art of Heilongjiang Province, China

Abstract The work and results of an exploratory expedition to a series of rock painting sites in the Heilongjiang Province of NE China are reported. All rock art surveyed occurs as paintings and is considered to be relatively recent. Preliminary age estimates were secured from four of the sites. In two instances, the ages were delimited by the antiquities of their support surfaces. In the two others, four re-precipitated carbonate samples were subjected to uranium-series analyses. The results are discussed in the light of the current debate concerning the need to check U–Th dates obtained from carbonate crusts against the findings of other methods.