RARO-Rock Art RecOrder 3.0 is out

RARO-Rock Art RecOrder 3.0/2026 is a free Windows database software (5 MB, Win only, unless using a virtualized OS) specifically designed for recording and cataloguing rock art. Developed by Andrea Arcà, it has been used for important Alpine rock-art sites. RARO allows users to manage rock and figure records and automatically produce HTML catalogues and detailed statistical reports. Version 3.0 introduces faster catalogue generation and direct HTML output through the default web browser. The software now provides multilingual help and record headings in English, Italian, Spanish and French. New features also include virtual-tour and museum links, and a tribute to RARO’s DOS origins. RARO is highly adaptable and can be customised to the recording requirements of virtually any rock-art site.

by Andrea Arcà

RARO-Rock Art RecOrder

Freeware database software for cataloguing rock art figures (Win only, unless using a virtualized OS). After a long period of use limited to the recording and cataloguing of rock carvings in the Alps – particularly in Valcamonica and the Western Alps – the time has come to share the database software specifically designed for rock art. It is fully customisable and therefore suitable for cataloguing rock art from all regions of the world. Among its key features is the automatic generation of figure catalogues – both comprehensive and specific – based on a wide range of filters.

by Andrea Arcà

AsTrend, ancient carvings enhanced

AsTrend
AsTrend

A short outline of a new low cost methodology: we present the AsTrend, a new methodology for enhance and depict details of the 3D models. This technique is being revealed as an accurate method to study rock art carvings and inscriptions. We think that this method could be used by everyone as the main study objects are based in low cost photogrammetry on the acquisition of 3D models.

by M. Carrero-Pazos, A. Vázquez-Martínez, B. Vilas-Estévez




CAA 2016, call for papers

Call for papers
Call for papers

Call for papers: CAA 2016, section 6, Computer tools for depicting shape and detail in 3D archaeological models. Deadline for paper submission 25 October 2015. Communications, posters and audio-visual material will be accepted, especially those that deal with new computer techniques, to depict shape and detail in 3D archaeological models.

by M. Carrero-Pazos, A. Vázquez-Martínez
B. Vilas-Estévez, M. Miguel Busto-Zapico




Printing Digital Images

Chumash, California

TRACCE no. 11 – by R. Paul Firnhaber


I had a photographic exhibit at the IRAC 98 Conference in Vila Real, Portugal where I displayed images from ten countries on five continents. While in last minute preparations for this exhibit, I decided to also include a number of prints that were made from digitized slides enhanced in Adobe PhotoShop and printed on my desktop printer.

Computer techniques applied to Rock Art

TRACCE no. 9 – by R. Mariano G. Castelo Branco


2nd International Congress of Rupestrian Archaeology
2-5 October 1997 DARFO BOARIO TERME
Computer techniques applied to Rock Art in NE Brasil.
This paper has as main objective to show the use of some computer techniques applied to digital photographs in the study of rock painting in the region of Forquilha, NE Brazil, Ceará State