Tag Archive for megalithic

Chenal shelter, six thousand years of iconography

January 21, 2015 Academics, Alpine rock art - Arte rupestre alpina, Archaeology, Featured, Megalithic art - arte megalitica, Methods - metodi, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.34, Western Alps No comments
Chenal shelter

Chenal shelter

The oldest post-Palaeolithic engravings of the Alps, 5th millennium BC, reveal many contact points with the ancient megalithic art of Brittany. We publish here the complete paper related to the Montjovet-Chenal shelter, Aosta valley; Italian version, with short English abstract and all-sectors tracings. Full text-image searchable flip book (Flash plugin needed). The low-res PDF is also available.

by A. Arcà, D. Daudry, A. Fossati, F. Morello, L. Raiteri

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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

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