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Usseglio, Alpine cults, archaeology and rock art

October 30, 2015 Footprints, Iron Age, Landscape, Roman, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37, Western Alps No comments

Ròch dij Gieugh

[Usseglio: culti in ambiente alpino, archeologia e arte rupestre]. A new exhibition room dedicated to the cults of the Alps has recently enriched the Civic Alpine Museum Arnaldo Tazzetti of Usseglio. A part of the room is devoted to the monumental Ròch dij Gieugh, an engraved stone situated on the slopes of the Usseglio mountains. The interest in this rock is given by the great number of shoeprints connected to a complex network of cup-marks and grooves. New important discoveries emerged during the recent tracing: three figures of Iron Age warriors and a possible votive inscription to Juppiter, the first found in the Alps on a cup-marked rock [ENG-ITA].

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Seradina 12, Valcamonica, 83 years of research

October 27, 2015 Iron Age, Photogallery, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Seradina R12 deer

Covering more than 200 square metres, Rock 12 is the largest engraved rock of the Seradina area; it is included in the Seradina-Bedolina Archaeological Municipal Park. Its beautiful and richly engraved surface has been known since the first discovery of the greatest part of the Valcamonica rock art (1932). In the 1980s the rock was traced and studied under the direction of Mila Simões de Abreu, during which time the tracing was completed. Seradina 12 hosts some very rare iconographic items; among them, we can notice six Iron Age horse-driven ploughing scenes. Two of them are accompanied by sexual scenes, the action meaningfully performed while the ground is being hoed.

by M.Simões de ABREU and A.E. FOSSATI

The Potash Sheep Shifters

October 21, 2015 Academics, North America, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37 2 comments

Shay Canyon Bighorns

The Southwest of North America is known for its rich rock art in which the image of the Bighorn is one of the most important zoomorphic representations. This study investigates the many manifestations of the Bighorn in rock art. The focus is on idiosyncrasies and possible transformations of the image of this impressive animal. It proves that in this respect especially Site 3 on Potash Road near Moab, Utah, offers so many shape-shifted images that we can speak of the Potash Sheep Shifters.

by Maarten van Hoek

AsTrend, ancient carvings enhanced

October 15, 2015 3D, Abstracts, Computerware, Imaging, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37 2 comments

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

October 15, 2015 3D, Computerware, Congress, Imaging, News - announcements - notizie, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37 No comments

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

Maçaõ: The art of Prehistoric societies

October 14, 2015 Congress, News - announcements - notizie, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37 No comments

ASP2015

The art of Prehistoric societies, 4th International Meeting of Doctoral and Post-Doctoral Researchers, will take place in Mação (Central Portugal) between 26th and 29th November 2015. Deadline for communication proposals reception (abstracts): October 31th, 2015; abstract up to 3000 characters with 5 keywords and 2 images. Website: http://www.asp2015.com/asp2015/

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Val Meraviglie e Fontanalba (Barocelli 1921)

September 2, 2015 Academics, Alpine rock art - Arte rupestre alpina, Bronze Age, Copper age, Featured, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37 No comments

Barocelli 1921

TRACCE free e-books

Barocelli P. 1921. Val Meraviglie e Fontanalba (Note di escursioni paletnologiche), Atti della Società Piemontese d’Archeologia e Belle Arti, vol. X, fasc. 1, 51 pp., X tavv.
| full text-image and PDF (TRACCE 2015 re-editing) | Italian

[editor’s note: this 1921 paper expresses the first complete archaeological and chronological framework of the Mt. Bego petroglyphic complex; the author, Piero Barocelli was the archaeologist charged with the area, which was at this time managed by the Italian Royal Archaeological Superintendence; Clarence Bicknell, during the last years of his life, passed to him the baton of the research]

by Piero Barocelli – 1921

Rock Art in Jebel Akhdar, Oman

August 24, 2015 Academics, Asia, Featured, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37, Tracing 6 comments

Bilad Sayt

The petroglyphs and pictographs of Oman are little known, but for the last five years I have been involved in a series of surveys of the Jebel Akhdar Mountains that have resulted in the location of several important sites. Recording these in advance of construction projects undertaken to modernize the country’s transportation network has enabled me to study the rock art in considerable detail for the first time. Using superimpositions, cross-dating with known artistic expressions elsewhere in the region, and the known dates for introduction of various objects of material culture, I propose a preliminary chronology consisting of four major phases spanning the last 6,000 years.

by Angelo Eugenio Fossati
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Footprints in the Alps – pediformi nelle Alpi

August 20, 2015 Alpine rock art - Arte rupestre alpina, Footprints, Iron Age, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37 One comment

Pisselerand

Footprints in the Alpine rock art: diffusion, chronology and interpretation. Abstract and slides of the communication presented on Tuesday 1 September 2015 at the IFRAO 2015 – XIX International Rock Art Conference (Cáceres, Spain). The communication provides a detailed description of the most important cases of alpine rocks bearing footprints, a chronological frame for the corresponding engraving phases, and a discussion about suggested interpretations.
Le impronte di piede nell’arte rupestre Alpina: diffusione, cronologia e interpretazione (abstract in Italiano)

by Andrea Arcà

Val Meraviglie e Fontanalba – Tavole (Barocelli 1921)

August 18, 2015 Academics, Alpine rock art - Arte rupestre alpina, Bronze Age, Copper age, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37 No comments

Barocelli 1921, plates

TRACCE free e-books

Tavole I-X da:
Barocelli P. 1921. Val Meraviglie e Fontanalba (Note di escursioni paletnologiche), Atti della Società Piemontese d’ Archeologia e Belle Arti, vol. X, fasc. 1, 51 pp., X tavv.

| full text-image and PDF (TRACCE 2015 re-editing, public domain) | Italian

[editor’s note: the 1921 paper by Piero Barocelli is enriched by 10 plates – tracings, drawings and pictures – accompanined by very detailed captions]

by Piero Barocelli – 1921

TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin 36 – May 2015

May 31, 2015 TRACCE Bulletin E-covers, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.36 No comments

# 36 – May 2015

TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin 36

––––––––––––––––––> by Footsteps of Man
edited by Le Orme dell’Uomo (Valcamonica – I)

Save Mount Latmos (Turkey) rock art!

Rock paintings dating back to the 6th and 5th millennia B.C. are endangered by exploitation of feldspar. Please sign the online petition to the Turkey Ministry of Forestry and Water Affairs

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TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin 35 – Mar 2015

March 28, 2015 Congress, Methods - metodi, TRACCE Bulletin E-covers, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.35 No comments

# 35 – Mar 2015 (abstracts of the CAA2015 rock art session)

TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin 35

––––––––––––––––––> by Footsteps of Man
edited by Le Orme dell’Uomo (Valcamonica – I)

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Chile, Photographic recording and digital enhancement

March 28, 2015 Imaging, South America, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.35 No comments

Tracing

[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]

The digital recording of rock art has benefited of an increasing number of software solutions, mostly photogrammetry and the enhancement of pigments from photographs. During the last years we have utilized open source scientific libraries for enhance pigments in a currently under development software code named PyDRA…

by Enrique CERRILLO-CUENCA, Marcela SEPÚLVEDA

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Spanish rock-art documentation, the ARAM project

March 28, 2015 Iberian peninsula, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.35, WEB No comments

ARAM project

[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]

In the latest three years, we have applied our own documentation methodology over 45 rock-art shelters from different regions of Spain. We developed a register system that combines the data acquired by 3D scanning technology, photogrammetry, high-resolution spherical images …

by Jorge ANGAS, Manuel BEA

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Biological activity tracking on cave art sites

March 28, 2015 Cave art, Congress, Imaging, Methods - metodi, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.35 No comments

UVF

[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]

Micro-organisms populating caves produce organic acids that damage and dissolve a calcite substratum. This might have been the primary cause of degradation of numerous Palaeolithic paintings in many caves…

by Alexander PAKHUNOV

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Northern Scandinavia rock paintings: NIR analysis

March 28, 2015 Computerware, Congress, Imaging, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.35 No comments

NIR analysis

[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]

Field based Near Infrared analysis of Rock paintings in northern Scandinavia. Seven different sites have been investigated and generated large amounts of multivariate data requiring multivariate data analysis…

by Johan LINDERHOLM, Paul GELADI, Claudia SCIUTO

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Great Rock of Naquane, digital practices

March 28, 2015 Congress, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.35, Tracing, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Naquane vector

[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]

Like archaeology in general, rock art studies need to record, study and share data: a large set of electronic instruments – for graphics and for the data analysis – are to be intended as a fundamental tool box for the careful and up-to-date rock art archaeologist…

by Andrea ARCÀ

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Rock-art photometric Stereo 3D visualizations

March 28, 2015 Congress, Imaging, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.35 No comments

Polesini cave

[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]

Traditional 3D recording requires expensive equipment as the laser scanning systems, with complex and highly specialised software. These problems may be partly overcome by applying a consolidate technique generally used in quality controls within manufacturing industrial environments: the photometric stereo…

by Massimo VANZI, Paolo Emilio BAGNOLI,
Carla MANNU, Giuseppe RODRIGUEZ

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