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Le rupi scolpite delle Alpi Marittime (Issel 1901)

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

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Issel A. 1901. Le rupi scolpite nelle alte valli delle Alpi Marittime, Bullettino di paletnologia italiana, s. III, t. VII, a. XXVII, n. 10-12, pp. 218-259.
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[editor’s note: the most detailed paper until that time on Mt. Bego’s engravings; Issel never recorded the engraved rocks, but attentively examined the literature and was in close and friendly contact with C. Bicknell]

by Arturo ISSEL

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

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

by Andrea Arcà

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

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

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

Grotte Chauvet Archaeologically Dated

February 21, 2000 Academics, Cave art, Featured, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 12 2 comments

Chauvet cave

TRACCE no. 12 – by Christian Züchner

The Grotte Chauvet was discovered at Christmas 1994. A beautiful picture book came out only a few months later (Chauvet et al. 1995). It has been the main source of our knowledge and discussion up to now.

Rock Art in Russian Far East and in Siberia

February 21, 1999 Academics, Asia, Featured, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 11 5 comments

Elangash

TRACCE no. 11 – by † Burchard Brentjes

Rock Art in Russian Far East and in Siberia. A bird’s eye view over a continent.
There are about half a million of petroglyphs known in Siberia and the Far East of Russia. Mobody knows up to now how many are still to be discovered…

The motif of the “Camunian Rose”

May 1, 1998 Featured, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 10, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Camunian rose

TRACCE no. 10 – by Paola Farina

The motif of the “Camunian Rose” in the rock art of Valcamonica (Italy) part **.
In the past the scholars proposed some hypotheses about the meaning of the “Camunian rose”, engraved on several rocks in Valcamonica… Read more

Orientalizing motives in alpine rock art

May 1, 1998 Academics, Asia, Featured, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 10, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Pazyryk horse

TRACCE no. 10 – by † Burchard Brentjes

Orientalizing motives in alpine rock art.
The rich ensemble of rock art in the Valle Camonica comprises several motives for which oriental parallels could be mentioned. Read more

Vermelhosa rock 1, palaeolithic figures

October 29, 1996 Featured, Iberian peninsula, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 5 No comments

Elephant figure

TRACCE no. 5 – by Andrea Arcà

Palaeolithic figures in rock n. 1 of the Vermelhosa – Côa Valley area.
Rock n. 1 of the Vermelhosa Valley (Côa Valley area) lies at 180 m altitude, on the left orographic side of the Douro River, which is flowing few scores of meters below.. Read more

Vermelhosa Iron Age rock art

October 29, 1996 Featured, Iberian peninsula, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 5 No comments

Duelling Iron Age scene

TRACCE no. 5 – by Angelo Fossati

The Iron Age in the Rock Art of Vermelhosa, Portugal.
Besides the figures attributable to the Palaeolithic times there are also petroglyphs that can be dated to the Iron Age (1st Millennium BC). These figures are engraved scratching the rock surface, sometimes with a stone, other times with a metal tool, as it is possible to note from the outlining. Read more