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The Meraviglie (Moggridge 1869)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

1868 drawings

TRACCE free e-books

Moggridge M. 1869. The Meraviglie, in International Congress of prehistoric Archaeology, transactions of the Third Session, London, 359-362, 5 plates.
| full text-image PDF (from Google Books, public domain) | English

[editor’s note: this paper marking the scientific discovery of Mt. Bego’s petroglyphic complex – one of the two Alpine rock art poles – is due to an English botanist, member of the Italian Alpine Club]

by Matthew MOGGRIDGE, F.G.S. (Fellow of the Geological Society of London)

Gravures sur roches, Lacs des Merveilles (Rivière 1879)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

1879 tracings

TRACCE free e-books

Rivière E., 1879. Gravures sur roches des lacs des Merveilles au val d’Enfer (Italie), in Association française pour l’avancement des sciences, Paris, pp. 783-793, I tav.
| full text-image PDF (from Gallica – BnF,, public domain) | French

[editor’s note: this paper better details the French scientific discovery of Mt. Bego’s petroglyphic complex and it is due to the physician and archaeologist Émile Rivière, devoted to the study of the Palaeolithic]

by Émile RIVIÈRE

Valcamonica, 2013 Rock Art Fieldwork & Field School

January 30, 2013 Methods - metodi, News - announcements - notizie, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 28, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Tracing prehistory

Again in 2013, from July 18 to August 8, Footsteps of Man organizes its annual archaeology field school at Paspardo. This area gives a great opportunity to archaeologists, scholars, students and enthusiasts. The project participants will learn to survey, clean, photograph, draw and catalogue the rock engravings. The program involves field research, documentation, tracing, guided visits and lectures. Infos, poster and photo-galleries here available.

by Angelo Eugenio Fossati

Entre Mont Bego et Val Camonica

January 13, 2013 Academics, Archaeology, Featured, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 28, Western Alps No comments

Merveilles, le Sorcier

TRACCE open access papers

Arcà Andrea, 2011.
Entre Bego et Val Camonica: une clé pour mieux comprendre l’origine de l’art rupestre dans les Alpes, in BEPAA XXII, pp. 71-89.
| full text-image inline PDF | French

La comparaison entre ces deux sites est cruciale pour l’encadrement global de l’art rupestre alpin.

by Andrea Arcà

Oukaimeden, a Moroccan rock art site

January 8, 2013 Morocco, Photogallery, Talks - lectures - conferenze, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 28 No comments

Oukaimeden engraving

Here some slides and draft notes of a lecture I delivered in 2010, after visiting Oukaimeden in April 2007. I’m pleased to share pictures, but also some ideas: comments are welcome. Oukaimeden is a very important petroglyphic complex, showing Copper or Ancient Bronze Age (III-beginnings of II mill. BC) engraved weapons, and also interesting points of contact with similar European petroglpyhs, from the Iberian peninsula to the Alpine arc, Mt. Bego particularly. Last but not least, it is also a beautiful natural site...

by Andrea Arcà (Footsteps of Man – IIPP)

Piero Barocelli, a rupestrian archeology pioneer

December 13, 2012 Academics, Alpine rock art - Arte rupestre alpina, Archaeology, books – journals – reviews, Featured, Methods - metodi, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 27, Western Alps One comment

Piero Barocelli, archaeologist

Piero Barocelli’s work on Mt. Bego Petroglpyphs plays a highly original and markedly pioneering role for the Alpine and European rupestrian archaeology. Full text-image inline PDF available (TRACCE open access papers).

Gli studi di Piero Barocelli sui petroglifi del Monte Bego assumono per l’archeologia rupestre alpina ed europea una posizione fortemente originale e di marcato pionierismo. Disponibile la versione PDF integrale.

by Andrea Arcà

Valcamonica&Valtellina, novità dalla ricerca

April 27, 2012 books – journals – reviews, News - announcements - notizie, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 26, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Copper Age daggers

Valcamonica and Valtellina, news from the research field. April 28 2012, Capo di Ponte, Valcamonica: presentation of the Volume XXII of the Bullettin d’études préhistoriques et archéologiques Alpines.

by Angelo E. FOSSATI

Valcamonica, 2012 Rock Art Fieldwork & Field School

March 30, 2012 Methods - metodi, News - announcements - notizie, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 25, Valcamonica - Valtellina 3 comments

Tracing Valcamonica rock art

Again in 2012 Footsteps of Man organizes its annual archaeology field school at Paspardo. This area gives a great opportunity to archaeologists, scholars, students and enthusiasts. The project participants will learn to survey, clean, photograph, draw and catalogue the rock engravings. (2013 fieldwork Jul 18-Aug 8)

by Angelo Eugenio Fossati

Gavrinis, une approche multiscalaire

March 27, 2012 Archaeology, Featured, Megalithic art - arte megalitica, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 25 One comment

Gavrinis art

A multiscale approach: the workflow committed on the Gavrinis island cairn gathers archaeologists and archaeometrists, architects and surveyors, to acquire, handle and share information relative to a passage-tomb built at the beginning of the IVth millennium, one of the most famous of the European monumental heritage.

by S. Cassen, L. Lescop, V. Grimaud, G. Querré, B. Sune

Valcamonica Archaeology-Rock Art Fieldwork

April 1, 2010 TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 22, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Tracing Iron age rock art

Researches on the sites: surveys for finding new engraved rocks, analysis of the damages of the rock surfaces and conservation problem, drawing of the engravings with permanent pens on plastic sheet, photographs ….

by Footsteps of Man

Sui Sentieri dell’arte rupestre – again available

March 21, 2010 books – journals – reviews, Eastern Alps, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, TRACCE Onl. RA bull. 21, Valcamonica - Valtellina, Western Alps No comments

Copertina – cover

44 escursioni alle più importanti aree incise delle Alpi. Tutti i settori sono rappresentati: dalle Alpi francesi (Bego, Ubaye e Moriana) e italiane (Alpi Occidentali, Valtellina, Valcamonica, Asiago), a quelle svizzere (Vallese e Grigioni) e austriache (Spittal, Golling, Schneid Joch). Un piccolo manuale di archeologia rupestre, che riassume anni di studio e di ricerca. The most complete guide to the Alpine Rock Art

by Andrea Arcà e Angelo Fossati

Urgent Rock Art Sos – FUMHAM

December 16, 2003 Rock art SOS, South America, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 17 No comments

Serra da Capivara

This is an urgent appeal. Due to a lack of funding, the Fundação Museu do Homem Americano (FUMDHAM), that takes care of the Serra Capivara National Rock Art Park, is in danger of closing. Don’t let this happen, sign the petition.

by Mila Simoes de Abreu (IFRAO – Portugal)

How do we recognise rock art?

August 20, 2003 Featured, Interpretation and semiotics, Methods - metodi, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 16 No comments

Aboriginal engraving

This paper was stimulated by an on-line discussion with Andrea Arcà (Case example 4: figurative and non-figurative below) about a need for archaeologists to treat figurative and non-figurative rock art differently.

by † John Clegg

Dating and (up)dating Valcamonica rock art

June 2, 2003 Featured, Methods - metodi, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 16, Valcamonica - Valtellina One comment

Valcamonica chronology

Since the beginning the achievement of a correct chronological attribution has represented an important point of any rock art research. But since the beginning any chronological attribution has been subjected to the risk of being questioned, not accepted or simply updated. So rock art dating is often controversial…

by Andrea Arcà

Dams and Rock Art: a match made in hell

November 14, 2002 Iberian peninsula, Rock art SOS, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 14 No comments

Pracana dam

The impact of dams on the rock art of Portugal was, in the last fifty years, devastating. Six major areas were affected.

by Mila Simões de Abreu

Bhimbetka cave paintings (India)

November 5, 2002 Asia, Cave art, India, Photogallery, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 14 No comments

Bhimbhetka paintings

I am sending some photographs of pre-historic cave paintings at Bhimbetka,Madhya Pradesh, India (taken by me) which you may like to publish in TRACCE bulletin. I shall be thankful if my name is mentioned as contributor.

by Sarbanidas Roy

Digital auto-tracing

February 21, 1999 Computerware, Methods - metodi, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 11 No comments

Pera dij Cros

TRACCE no. 11 – Andrea Arcà

Digital auto-tracing in Rock Art Recording. Applications of computer vectorial design.
In the same way that we need to have a good reproduction of the scenes depicted or embossed in vases, we have the necessity of recognising perfectly all the figures engraved on a rock surface…

The Swastika Stone

May 1, 1998 British Isles, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 10 One comment

Swastika Stone

TRACCE no. 10 – by Gyrus

The Swastika Stone near Ilkley in West Yorkshire (England).
I would like to present some findings and ideas in relation to the so-called Swastika Stone, located on the moors near Ilkley in West Yorkshire, England. Read more