# 35 – Mar 2015 (abstracts of the CAA2015 rock art session)
TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin 35
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edited by Le Orme dell’Uomo (Valcamonica – I)
Archive for TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.35
Chile, Photographic recording and digital enhancement
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
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
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
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
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
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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Extensive rock-art panels, computer aided recording
Detail map
[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]
The communication deals with a method for graphical recording of planar engraved surfaces with wide extension able to maintain a high degree of accuracy and resolution. This method uses digital photography and a dedicated software and produce the map directly in a digital image format…
by Paolo Emilio BAGNOLI, Andrea SAMUELI
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3D scan, a support for Petroglyph analysis
Züschen I
[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]
Processed digital copies of the petroglyphs are visualised in order to enable the user to inspect the processed scans of the objects. By inspecting the scans the application provides a mass of functionality for achieving different views into the petroglyphs and their appearance….
by Frank BOOCHS, Stefanie WEFERS, Burkhard TIETZ, Tobias REICH
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Archaeoacoustics of rock art
3C session abstract
[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]
Archaeoacoustics has made a breakthrough in the field of rock art research, as it represents a completely new way of studying the landscapes in which rock art was made…
by Margarita DIAZ-ANDREU, Tommaso MATTIOLI
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Photogrammetric techniques at Campo Lameiro, Galicia
Campo Lameiro
[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]
We propose photogrammetry as a technique that allow us to create a 3D model, oriented to reduce the different problems of subjectivity that are present in the old systems of registry, and furthermore to study the rock surface without touching it…
by Benito VILAS, Alia VÁZQUEZ, Miguel CARRERO
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AaATec, a resource for archaeological communication
The AATEC journal
[CAA 2015 – session 3C abstract]
In 2013 a team of researchers from Russia has created an electronic International Journal Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies – AaATec. The results of studies in the field of archeology and ancient technology, including related to the study and interpretation of rock art, are published in the journal…
by Larisa VODOLAZHSKAYA, Artem VODOLAZHSKIY
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