TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin 7 – May 1997
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Call for papers
TRACCE no. 7 – by editor
We launch this short call (sustained by the “advertising banners” on the top of each article): please feel free to send us short papers about any RA related theme.
Funny petroglyphs
TRACCE no. 7 – by Angelo Fossati – Elena Marchi
The prehistoric man had some times a very good sense of humor. He left us some funny images: men, women and animals in “strange” positions or with different objects…
The “Camunnian Rose”, Valcamonica Rock Art
TRACCE no. 7 – by Paola Farina
The motif of the “Camunnian Rose” in the Rock Art of Valcamonica (Italy). Part *. The shape of the so-called “camunian rose”, engraved on several rocks of Val Camonica, consists of a sinuous quadrilobate groove, winding around 9 cup-marks, whose disposition is fixed and is a recurring model; today this pattern is well-known, also because lately it has become the symbol of Lombardia.
Scratched horses in a relief
TRACCE no. 7 – by Elena Marchi
Scratched horses in a relief from Cividate Camuno – Valcamonica (Italy). The Camunnian rock art of the Iron Age is characterised, besides thousands of hammered engravings of warriors, hunters, animals, scenes of ploughing, of breeding, figures of houses, engraved with a careful and naturalistic style, also by engravings of inscriptions and alphabet in the so called Camunnian alphabet.
Jack Belmondo – in memoriam
TRACCE no. 7 – by Footsteps of Man
Jack Belmondo (Giuseppe Belfiore Mondoni).
Jack Belmondo (stage name of Giuseppe Belfiore Mondoni) has been considered one of the most important experimental archaeologists in Italy and probably in Europe.
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Pakistan Rock Art Photo Gallery
TRACCE no. 7 – by Ulrich Schendzielorz
The photos were produced in 1994 as an assignment of the German science magazine ‘Bild der Wissenschaft’ in cooperation with Prof. Harald Hauptmann of the ‘Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften’.
Die Felsbildstation Shatial (Pakistan)
TRACCE no. 7 – by Martin Bemmann
The second volume of “Materialien zur Archaeologie der Nordgebiete Pakistans” is dealing with the petroglyph site Shatial, 60km west of Chilas in the upper Indus valley of Pakistan.
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Karakorum Highway Rock Carvings
TRACCE no. 7 – by Martin Bemmann, Ditte Koenig
Rock Carvings and Inscriptions along the Karakorum Highway (Pakistan).
Shortly after the construction of the Karakorum Highway connecting Pakistan and China through the Himalayan and Karakorum mountains, in 1978, Prof. Karl Jettmar (Heidelberg, Germany) and Prof. A.H. Dani (Quaid-i-Azam University Islamabad, Pakistan) discovered thousands of petroglyphs and inscriptions along the Indus valley.
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Pakistani Petroglyphs
TRACCE no. 7 – by editor
An online abstract of an Archaeology (Official Publication of the Archaeological Institute of America) article, January/February 1997, and some recent messages in the Rock Art Mail List pointed the attention over the petroglyps in Pakistan and a new dam building.
IFRAO meeting
TRACCE no. 7 – by R. G. Bednarik
The 1997 IFRAO Meeting was held at Cochabamba, on 2 April 1997, as part of the Congreso Internacional de Arte Rupestre held by SIARB. The event was chaired by Roy Querejazu Lewis (President of SIARB).
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III Coloquio Internacional de Arte Megalítico
TRACCE no. 7 – by J.M. Bello
La organización del III Coloquio, que se desarrollará en La Coruña (Galicia, España) entre el 8 y el 13 de septiembre de 1997, corre a cargo de J.M. Bello, R. de Balbín y P. Bueno, con la colaboración de B. Bas, M. Rey y M. San Claudio, bajo el patrocinio del Ayuntamiento de La Coruña a través del Museo Arqueológico e Histórico de dicha ciudad.
URARA 17th Annual Symposium
TRACCE no. 7 – by URARA
The Utah Rock Art Research Association presents the 17th Annual Symposium in Price Utah at the Civic Auditorium August 29th through September 1st, 1997.
Crossing Frontiers
TRACCE no. 7 – by Mila Simoes de Abreu
Crossing Frontiers first announcement for IRAC 1998 (ver. 1997.05.03)
UTAD (Universidade de Tras-os-Montes e Alto Douro) is the venue of the 1998 International Rock-Art Congress (IRAC 1998) which takes place in Vila Real, a charming town in the north of Portugal, from 6-12 September 1998.
2nd International Congress
TRACCE no. 7 – by Congress staff
2nd International Congress of Rupestrian Archaeology.
Archaeology and Rock Art. Europe – Alps – Valcamonica
2 – 5 October 1997, Palazzo dei Congressi
Boario Congressi – Via Manifattura 25041 DARFO BOARIO TERME
(Valcamonica – BS – ITALY).
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RockArtNet Iconographic Database
TRACCE no. 7 – by Andrea Arcà
More than 30 messages in the last days of April 1997 were sent to the Rock Art email List, with the subject “suggestion”. They were all pointing to the opportunity of exchanging RA related pictures via Internet. These messages represented one of the most important and useful web discussion in the last 12 months.
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Save Petroglyph National Monument
TRACCE no. 7 – by Friends of the Albuquerque Petroglyphs
Save Petroglyph National Monument (Albuquerque – New Mexico – USA).
Sen. Pete Domenici (R-NM) and Congressmen Steve Schiff (R-NM) and Joe Skeen (R-NM) have announced they will introduce legislation to allow Paseo del Norte, a six-lane freeway-type road, to be built through Petroglyph National Monument.
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Tracing the Past
TRACCE no. 7 – by Angelo Fossati – Andrea Arcà
Tracing the Past. Petroglyph reproduction for Rupestrian Archaeology
This paper reproduces the poster for ARARA meeting May ’97.
It has also many points in common with the previous article of A. Fossati in TRACCE 6, while showing something more. It also represents a good introduction to our tracing professional workshop.
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The Folk Culture Museum* at Bhimtal
TRACCE no. 7 – by Lok Sanskriti Sangrahalaya
The Folk Culture Museum* at Bhimtal Uttar Pradesh (India)
The Museum of Folk Culture (Lok Sanskriti Sangrahalaya) is situated at Bhimtal, a village 280 km to the north-east of Delhi (Nainital district of Kumaon hills), in the lap of the Himalayas, north of the Uttar Pradesh State in India.
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The petroglyphs of Santinho Beach
TRACCE no. 7 – by Rodrigo Aguiar
The petroglyphs of Santinho Beach S.ta Catarina Island (Brasil)
Santinho beach, situated in S.ta Catarina Island, 40 Km far from Florianópolis town, shows three rock art sites, engraved on its rock walls. The coast is a good place for fishing and shell collecting.