Archive for TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 11

TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin 11 – Feb 1999

TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin no. 11
21 February 1999 – cover and index only


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Rupestre – Arte Rupestre en Colombia

TRACCE no. 11 – by C.N. Dubelaar


Año 2 numero 2. Julio de 1998. ISSN 0123-7675.

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Rupestre – Rock Art In Colombia

TRACCE no. 11 – by C.N. Dubelaar


Second issue. July 2, 1998 ISSN 0123-7675.

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A conclusão do levantamento de arte rupestre

Ilha de Santa Catarina

TRACCE no. 11 – by Rodrigo Aguiar


A conclusão do levantamento de arte rupestre (parte **) na Ilha de Santa Catarina e ilhas adjacentes – Brasil.
Os petroglifos sofrem constantes agressões, que vão desde caminhar pôr sobre as inscrições, riscar o petroglifo com um pedaço de pedra, pichações com tinta óleo… .

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The conclusion of the rock art survey (part **)

Santa catarina island

TRACCE no. 11 – by Rodrigo Aguiar


The conclusion of the rock art survey (part **) in Santa Catarina Island and adjacent islands – Brazil.
The petroglyphs suffer constant aggressions, from walking over the engravings, mark the petroglyphs with a piece of rock, painting made with oil paint… .

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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.

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Rock Art in Russian Far East and in Siberia

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

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Depictions of nine men’s morris

Kalkalpen

TRACCE no. 11 – by Franz Mandl


Depictions of nine men’s morris on rock in the northern part of the Kalkalpen.
In this essay I want to introduce all depictions of nine men’s morrises which have been discovered until today and collected in the archive of the ANISA society
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Figures of boat in the rock art of Valcamonica

Foppe di Nadro

TRACCE no. 11 – by Angelo Fossati


The boat is one of the most rare figure in the rock art of Valcamonica. At this stage of the research there are two types of boats: one represents a real boat; another a mythical craft.

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Printing Digital Images

Chumash, California

TRACCE no. 11 – by R. Paul Firnhaber


I had a photographic exhibit at the IRAC 98 Conference in Vila Real, Portugal where I displayed images from ten countries on five continents. While in last minute preparations for this exhibit, I decided to also include a number of prints that were made from digitized slides enhanced in Adobe PhotoShop and printed on my desktop printer.

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Recording British Rock Art

Weetwood Moor

TRACCE no. 11 – by Elizabeth Donnan


Despite the recent upsurge of interest in rock art studies relatively little research has been conducted into the reasons behind the techniques used to record discoveries in the field. At present the techniques in use have been defined and influenced by current issues of interest which focus on interpretation and meaning with little regard to recording methodology…

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Digital auto-tracing (inline PPT to PDF)

Pera dij Cros

TRACCE no. 11 – Andrea Arcà


Digital auto-tracing in Rock Art Recording. Applications of computer vectorial design (inline PPT to PDF).
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…

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Digital auto-tracing

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…

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Digital Image Processing

Selva Pascuala

TRACCE no. 11 – by Phil Clogg, Margarita Díaz-Andreu


Digital Image Processing and the Recording of Rock Art.
Traditional techniques of recording entail a high degree of subjectivity due to the important number of decisions that the specialist has to take. Different recordings on the same motif usually show contradictory interpretations of certain features…

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Quantitative Assessment of Rock Art Recording

Photoshop Split Screen

TRACCE no. 11 – by John M. Brayer, Henry Walt, Bruno David


In this paper we report on quantitative measures of comparison of two rock art recordings. We conclude that free hand drawing is very inaccurate and that experts may be no better than beginners at accurate recording

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Computers and Rock-Art session

RockComputArt

TRACCE no. 11 – by Andrea Arcà, José Bulas Cruz


Computers and Rock-Art session Rationale.
IRAC’98
INTERNATIONAL ROCK ART CONGRESS
“Crossing Frontiers”
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