Posted inAfrica Photogallery TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 17
Rock Paintings and engravings in Namibia
The Brandberg massif is a large granite elevation in the north-west of Namib Desert; in this area more than 1000 painted rock shelters were found. Twyfelfontein site contains about 2500 rock engraving on 200 sandstone slabs.
Photo gallery.
by † Leonardo Gribaudo
Urgent Rock Art Sos – FUMHAM
This is an urgent appeal. Due to a lack of funding, the Fundação Museu do Homem Americano (FUMDHAM), that takes care of the Serra Capivara National Rock Art Park, is in danger of closing. Don’t let this happen, sign the petition.
by Mila Simoes de Abreu (IFRAO – Portugal)
Quebrada de Santo Domingo: save geoglyphs
Please help save an exceptional and surprisingly unknown site in Northern Peru already designated out of bounds by the Peruvian Institute of Culture.
by Melissa MASSAT
MEGART – The Megalithic Art of…
The Gavrinis cairn (Brittany, F) with its engraved slabs is one of the most impressive monuments of the European Megalithic art (Neolithic).
Photo gallery.
by Andrea Arcà
Perché hanno fatto le coppelle?
Benvenuti nel passato. Ecco i fantastici lavori che abbiamo realizzato durante le ricerche nel bosco delle rocce bucate, cioè le rocce con le coppelle lungo l’itinerario archeologico e naturalistico sulla collina morenica di Monsagnasco.
by bambini della scuola elementare Baricco (Torino, 2001)
How do we recognise rock art?
This paper was stimulated by an on-line discussion with Andrea Arcà (Case example 4: figurative and non-figurative below) about a need for archaeologists to treat figurative and non-figurative rock art differently.
by † John Clegg
Preservation of Rock Art
I have been studying rock art in the American West for over 10 years, concentrating my research on public sites, and how they have been “developed” for public visitation. I have drawn a number of conclusion about site selection, and procedures for preparing a site for public visitation.
by Ronald D. Sanders
Dating and (up)dating Valcamonica rock art
Since the beginning the achievement of a correct chronological attribution has represented an important point of any rock art research. But since the beginning any chronological attribution has been subjected to the risk of being questioned, not accepted or simply updated. So rock art dating is often controversial…
by Andrea Arcà
Manzanez mill rock art: a destroyed sanctuary
The area, extremely rich in Palaeolithic-to-contemporary rock art, is now submerged, like the bordering Portuguese ones, by the huge artificial lake of the Guadiana dam. Photo gallery.
by Hipolito Collado Giraldo
Posted inAfrica Epigraphy TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 16
Hannibal was here
At the beginning of the 1980’s some strange rock inscriptions were first found on Fuerteventura, later on Lanzarote as well. “Inscriptions” may be a misleading term in this context. They are only shallow markings scratched on to hard basalt rocks.
by Werner Pichler
La Roccia falsaria
Le coppelle vere e le nuove (false) incisioni del Monte Musiné scoperte e disegnate dai bambini della scuola elementare di Caselette (TO)…
by I bambini della classe quinta, primavera 2002
Intensive Course on European Prehistoric Art
From the 7th to the 13th of April 2003: this years’ Intensive Course is related to the topic “Research and Management”.
by Luiz Oosterbeek
Censimento delle incisioni rupestri della Bessa
Non è possibile ad oggi, in assenza di contesto archeologico, datare le rocce a coppelle della Bessa. Sembra comunque da scartare la tesi che siano da attribuire cronologicamente al periodo di sfruttamento da parte dei Romani dato che la zona di massima concentrazione di insediamenti relativi alle aurifodinae non coincide con quella delle incisioni.
by Alberto Vaudagna (S.Va.P.A.)