Nell’area alpina l’arte rupestre si manifesta con incisioni e pitture realizzate su pareti rocciose riparate, affioramenti all’aperto, massi erratici e menhir. L’excursus cronologico è piuttosto vasto: ci si muove dal Paleolitico delle aree più periferiche e prealpine, via via attraverso le varie epoche della preistoria, sino a tutta l’età del Ferro…
by Angelo Eugenio Fossati
44 escursioni alle più importanti aree incise delle Alpi. Tutti i settori sono rappresentati: dalle Alpi francesi (Bego, Ubaye e Moriana) e italiane (Alpi Occidentali, Valtellina, Valcamonica, Asiago), a quelle svizzere (Vallese e Grigioni) e austriache (Spittal, Golling, Schneid Joch). Un piccolo manuale di archeologia rupestre, che riassume anni di studio e di ricerca. The most complete guide to the Alpine Rock Art
by Andrea Arcà e Angelo Fossati
The rock art site “Höll” in Upper Austria was documented in the fifties. In the international literature it is the best known place in Austria…
by Werner PICHLER
In the research area of Upper Austrian Salzkammergut rhombi can be found at 32 of 44 sites (73 %). Thus it is the sign with the widest distribution. The rhomb occurs in all altitudes and in all sorts of sites. The places with the greatest number of rhombi are: Kienbachklamm, Echerntal and Steinberg, Nieder Dürren and Sulzbach.
by Werner Pichler
TRACCE no. 12 – by Werner Pichler
For centuries there was no discussion about supposed Palaeolithic rock engravings in the Austrian Alps. Only in recent years have some references appeared, even some pages on the WWW (e.g. Bednarik), which necessitate clarification.
TRACCE no. 11 – by Franz Mandl
Depictions of nine men’s morris on rock in the northern part of the Kalkalpen.
In this essay I want to introduce all depictions of nine men’s morrises which have been discovered until today and collected in the archive of the ANISA society.
TRACCE no. 4 – by Angelo Fossati
The state of the research: Alpine and Italian post-palaeolithic Rock Art 1990-1995
* Part 3 - The Eastern Alps, Italy and the Balkans *
After the first discoveries of rock art in Austria, about 30 new sites have been discovered in Tirol, Niederösterreich, Salzburg and Stiria…
