the Guadiana river
TRACCE no. 13 – by Editor
16 pictures from the Spanish side of the Guadiana river: environment and rock art (now submerged by the dam)
Archive for Protection – Salvaguardia
Guadiana rock art gallery – Spanish side
Guadiana rock art gallery – Portuguese side
Guadiana rock art
TRACCE no. 13 – by Editor
22 pictures from the Portuguese side of the Guadiana river: many different kinds of rock art figures, now submerged by the dam
Los Molinos de Cheles
Molino Manzanez
TRACCE no. 13 – by TRACCE editor
(de Cheles 2000 en imágenes)
Esto es un fragmento del libro en el que muestro las fotografías y describo los paisajes, monumentos, fauna y flora próximos a Cheles que van a desaparecer cuando se termine el embalse de Alqueva. En este fragmento están los molinos. es el capítulo más largo del libro.
Jacinto Gil Sierra
Conservation Project of Rock Art
Fonte Grande II
TRACCE no. 11 – by Márcia Dantas Braga
Conservation Project of Rock Art at the outbacks of the state of Bahia, Brazil.
My first contact with rock art happened during a mural painting conservation course that I was doing in Rome, at ICCROM. Lectures about Lascaux had fascinated me. A few months later, back in my own country, I volunteered to work as a conservator within the archaeological team of Dr Maria Beltrão.
The Man of Bicorp
Spain pictograph
TRACCE no. 10 – by Giacomo Omallini
The Man of Bicorp in danger (Cueva de la Arana, Spain).
This rock painting discovered in 1921, in the cave of the Spider(Cueva de la Arana), in the province of Valencia, in Spain, dating back to the end of Palaeolithic, is the most beatiful ‘apiarian’ painting discovered till now. Read more
Looking Back at Four Years of Advocacy
Low rail barrier
TRACCE no. 10 – by M. Leigh Marymor
Looking Back at Four Years of Advocacy for the Ring Mountain Petroglyphs – California (USA).
In the Fall of 1993, the Bay Area Rock Art Research Association (BARARA) began an effort to insure protections for the Ring Mountain petroglyphs in Tiburon (Marin County), California . Read more
Pakistani Petroglyphs
Chilas Buddha
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. Read more
Save Petroglyph National Monument
Paseo the Road to Nowhere
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. Read more
From the Dam to the Park
As gravuras nao sabem nadar
TRACCE no. 5 – by M.S. Abreu, A. Arcà, A. Fossati, L. Jaffe
The Movement to save Côa Valley engraved rocks was started and led by Mila Simões De Abreu and Ludwig Jaffe, and internationally sustained by many Archaeological scholars, Institutions and Universities (Universidad de Alcalà de Henares, Institut of Archaeology London, Université de Poitiers, British Academy, Society for American Archaeology, University of Bristol, Australian Academy of the Humanities, University of New Mexico…). Read more
Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico
Albuquerque petroglyph
TRACCE no. 5 – by Petroglyph Monument Protection Coalition
Petroglyph National Monument in New Mexico imperiled by Road Plans
National Monument comprises more than 7,200 acres along Albuquerque’s scenic West Mesa Escarpment and was established by Congress in 1990. Read more
