Archive for Photogallery

Oukaimeden, a Moroccan rock art site

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

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Warriors and duels in Valcamonica rock art

December 5, 2004 Photogallery, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 20, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Iron age duel

Iron Age figures represent 80% of Valcamonica rock art, hundreds of thousands of figures finely pecked on richest european archives of open-air rock art. Here only a little excerpt of warriors and duels.
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by Andrea Arcà

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Rock Paintings and engravings in Namibia

December 17, 2003 Africa, Photogallery, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 17 No comments

Twyfelfontein

The Brandberg massif is a large granite elevation in the north-west of Namib Desert; in this area more than 1000 painted rock shelters were found. Twyfelfontein site contains about 2500 rock engraving on 200 sandstone slabs.
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by † Leonardo Gribaudo

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MEGART – The Megalithic Art of…

August 26, 2003 Megalithic art - arte megalitica, Photogallery, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 16 No comments

Gavrinis

The Gavrinis cairn (Brittany, F) with its engraved slabs is one of the most impressive monuments of the European Megalithic art (Neolithic).
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by Andrea Arcà

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Manzanez mill rock art: a destroyed sanctuary

June 2, 2003 Iberian peninsula, Photogallery, Rock art SOS, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 16 No comments

Manzanez submerged

The area, extremely rich in Palaeolithic-to-contemporary rock art, is now submerged, like the bordering Portuguese ones, by the huge artificial lake of the Guadiana dam. Photo gallery.

by Hipolito Collado Giraldo

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Bhimbhetka 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 Bhimbhetka,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

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Guadiana rock art gallery – Portuguese side

April 29, 2001 Iberian peninsula, Photogallery, Rock art SOS, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 13 No comments

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

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Pakistan Rock Art Photo Gallery

May 12, 1997 Asia, Photogallery, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 7 No comments

Sun-wheels

TRACCE no. 7 – by Ulrich Schendzielorz

The photos were produced in 1994 as an assignment of the German science magazine ‘Bild der Wissenschaft’ in cooperation with Prof. Harald Hauptmann of the ‘Heidelberger Akademie der Wissenschaften’. Read more