摘要：在第二次青藏科考过程中,作者在西藏自治区拉萨市邱桑村的古泉华沉积上新发现了由5个手印和5个脚印组成“岩面艺术”(parietal art)。对这一“岩面艺术”进行解剖学测量、3D模型模拟、铀系测年和手脚印形态分析后,得到以下认识:①“岩面艺术”是在泉华没有成岩之前由古人类有意压上去的;②“岩面艺术”所在岩层的U/Th年代为226~169 ka B.P.,这其中包含一个手指印岩层的表面直接年龄(207~188 ka B.P.);③这一发现是迄今为止发表的古人类在青藏高原上活动的最早记录之一,也为古人类适应高寒、低氧环境提供了新的证据;④此岩面艺术是目前世界上已知的最古老的艺术,上面的手印也是古人类留下的最早的手印;⑤这一原始的岩面艺术表明,创作它的古老人种可能具有一定的认知和空间感知能力,此岩面艺术的发现也将有可能改写人类艺术史,并且加深我们对已消失的古人类认知水平的认识。

摘要：At Quesang on the Tibetan Plateau we report a series of hand and foot impressions that appear to have been intentionally placed on the surface of a unit of soft *** travertine was deposited by water from a hot spring which is now inactive and as the travertine lithified it preserved the *** the basis of the sizes of the hand and foot traces,we suggest that two track-makers were involved and were likely *** interpret this event as a deliberate artistic act that created a work of parietal *** travertine unit on which the traces were imprinted dates to between~169 and 226 ka *** would make the site the earliest currently known example of parietal art in the world and would also provide the earliest evidence discovered to date for hominins on the High Tibetan Plateau(above 4000 m a.s.l.).This remarkable discovery adds to the body of research that identifies children as some of the earliest artists within the genus Homo.

摘要：青藏高原中部海拔超过4000 m的中更世古人类手脚印的发现引起了国内外古环境、考古、人类史学界的广泛关注,并予以很高评价。众多评论文章中,《河北师范大学学报(哲学与社会科学版)》上有一篇题为《西藏邱桑温泉手脚印遗迹及相关问题》的文章,对手脚印研究中的“年代”和“岩面艺术如何界定”这两个方面提出了质疑。因此特撰写此文,对这两个方面的质疑做出回应。本文将系统梳理Zhang et al.(2021)所发表的手脚印“岩面艺术”中有关“年代学”和“艺术界定”这两方面的内容,从U-Th测年在碳酸盐沉积中的应用和史前艺术的特征等方面来解答部分学者对此研究存在的疑虑和误导,并提出本文的看法:U-Th法是目前对邱桑温泉方解石泉华进行年龄测定的最合适方法,所测的年代是可靠的,并且“岩面艺术”一词是这些手脚印组合最适合的名称。