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Showing 1 to 20 of 54 for “"Rock Art"”.
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The Prehistoric rock art of Morocco.
… study aims to examine all aspects of Moroccan rock art and place it in an archaeological and environmental context. Almost 300 sites are now known but few have been studied fully. This work is the first overall analysis to be attempted. Data on climatic changes during the Holocene period, …
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A Regional Approach to Rock Art Interpretation
Research on southern African rock art interpretation has been heavily steered to geographically ‘rich’ areas. As a result, such areas have over time become significant locations for academic research and touristic popularity (Ndlovu 2013). These areas tend to be rich in rock art, with the imagery …
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Characterising Chumash Rock Art Pigments Using Portable XRF Technology
… implications of this information. Five Chumash rock art sites in the Windwolves Preserve, California were examined using X-Ray fluorescence analysis in order to characterise the range of pigments used. Most of the pigments were red in colour but black, grey, blue and white pigments were also …
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How to do things with petroglyphs: the rock art of Nevada
The focus of this thesis is the rock art of Nevada, a state in the western United States. While the previously dominant models of rock art interpretation (hunting-magic and shamanism) have produced significant bodies of research, I argue that both are based on faulty Anthropological theory and …
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Ghosts on the Land: Apsaalooke (Crow Indian) Interpretations of Rock Art
… perceptions of the medium employed-the immovable rock cliff. Crow interpretations of rock art, therefore, rest as much on the rock face and its place in the landscape as on the comprehension of culturally defined symbols.
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"That Ancient People": Exploring an Ideology of Rock Art at Tsul'Kalu Rock
… features of what I call an ideology of rock art. These features are culturally informed ideologies of temporality, language, and indigenous personhood that come together and aid in the production of knowledge at a rock art site. The consequential aspect of the ideology of rock art is …
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Characterization of the binders in the rock art of Cueva La Conga, Nicaragua
… the only known painted cave in Nicaragua, in a part of that country about which little is known archaeologically. The rock art, which includes carved rock formations as well as paintings and handprints, may provide clues about the past people and culture of this area. Archaeologists want to know …
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Rock art incorporated : an archaeological and interdisciplinary study of certain human figures in San art
Understanding a widespread motif in San rock art - a human figure depicted in frontal perspective with distinctive bodily characteristics - is the aim of this study. A concentration of these figures in north eastern Zimbabwe was first described by researchers in the 1930s and subsequently, when one …
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Investigating image processing algorithms for provision of information in rock art sites using mobile devices
… Examples include the Southern African rock art heritage sites. Rock art is an archaeological term used to describe man-made markings on stones. Studies have revealed that visitors to rock art sites usually do not understand the meaning of the rock art artefacts they are looking at due …
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HIDDEN IN THE COAT: GEOMICROBIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATIONS OF ROCK ART ECOSYSTEMS AND CHALLENGES FOR THEIR SUSTAINABLE PRESERVATION
Rock art is a precious heritage that prevailed from prehistory into the modern times, it holds significant implications to past cultures and climate changes and are found in most of the world. It indicates the development of human cognition and modern behavior, while recording the fauna and flora …
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An archaeological re-investigation of the Mulka's Cave Aboriginal rock art site, near Hyden, Southwestern Australia
… 350 km southeast of Perth. The importance of the artwork has been recognised for 50 years. Test excavations in the cave in 1988 yielded 210 mainly quartz artefacts assignable to the Australian Small Tool phase and a radiocarbon date of 420 ± 50 BP from just below the lowest artefact found. The …
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Non-invasive methods for in situ assessing and monitoring of the vulnerability of rock art monuments
Rock art monuments provide a link to our ancient cultural pasts, they possess seeming permanence but are sensitive to their environment. The increasing emphasis on non-destructive testing and demand for thorough characterisation of cultural heritage material in situ requires the development of …
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Decisions Set in Stone: Spatial Analyses of Ozark Rock Art Sites, Elements, and Motifs with GIS
… Information Systems (GIS) to spatially analyze rock art distributions in the Salem Plateau section of the Arkansas Ozarks. Statistical tests, such as chi-square and t-testing, are applied to provide an objective view of rock art patterning in relation to the overall landscape. The data collected …
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Rock art regionalism and identity: case studies from Trans-Pecos Texas and Mpumalanga Province, South Africa
This work addresses two key issues in current rock art research, the first theoretical, the second exemplary. Researchers often write of rock art regions without according the concept sufficient theoretical consideration. I argue that rock art regions are more usefully defined by the presence and …
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Of Pigments and Paint : quantifying ochre and rock art in the Cederberg (Western Cape, South Africa
… of the ochre assemblages and the surface area of rock paintings from the same sites based on colour classification from the Later Stone Age assemblages of three rock shelters, De Hangen, Andriesgrond and Diepkloof in the Western Cape, South Africa. This work begins to bridge the gap that exists …
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Using the archive to formulate a chronology of rock art in the South-Western Cape, South Africa
… This study vouches for the archival capacity of rock art and hence the archival perspective can be used to analyse paintings sites to build a framework their chronological and interpretative formulations. The sequence of paintings in the south-western Cape is customarily accepted to span …
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Natural processes in the degradation of open-air rock-art sites: an urgency intervention scale to inform conservation.
Open-air rock-art forms one of the most widely distributed categories of prehistoric material culture with examples recognized across the Old and New Worlds. It is also one of the most threatened features of human heritage and is susceptible to accelerated decay as a result of anthropogenic and …
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The role of indigenous environmental beliefs in cultural heritage preservation of Mwela rock art site in Kasama district of Zambia.
… beliefs play in heritage preservation at Mwela rock art site of Kasama district of Zambia. The objectives of the study were: to unravel the role spiritual beliefs played in preserving the rock art site, to investigate the desecration of indigenous beliefs at Mwela rock art site by the local …
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