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TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin no. 11 |
Archive for TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 11
TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin 11 – Feb 1999
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… .
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… .
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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
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
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” Read more
