Rock Art of Soqotra, Yemen: A Forgotten Heritage Revisited [PDF]
Arts, 2018 This paper presents a comprehensive review of historical and current rock art research on the island of Soqotra, Yemen and places these sites within a spatial framework from which it analyses themes concerning water and the visibility and invisibility of
Julian Jansen van Rensburg
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Rock art at the pleistocene/holocene boundary in Eastern South America. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2012 BackgroundMost investigations regarding the first americans have primarily focused on four themes: when the New World was settled by humans; where they came from; how many migrations or colonization pulses from elsewhere were involved in the process; and
Walter A Neves +4 more
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Journal of the East Africa Natural History Society and Coryndon Museum, 1962 (Uploaded by Plazi from the Biodiversity Heritage Library) No abstract provided.
Matson,A. T.
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From the DOP Petroglyph Unit Archives: an Old Kingdom “dancing girl” image from Site 30/450-E4-6 [PDF]
Polish Archaeology in the Mediterranean, 2021 The rock art discovered in the 1980s and 1990s by the Dakhleh Oasis Project Petroglyph Unit is for the most part unpublished or only briefly mentioned in reports. The paper—the first of a planned series—offers a description and brief comparative study of
Paweł L. Polkowski
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An Analytic-contrastive Study on Goat Motifs in Petroglyphs in “Shotorsang” area in Khorasan Razavi and Similar Motifs in Other Regions in Iranian Plateau [PDF]
نگره, 2020 In Iran petroglyphs are widely dispersed and have superficial and conceptual similarities with other cases found throughout the world. The motifs depicted in the petroglyphs, which are categorized among the artworks that have remained from Paleolithic to
Farzaneh Najafi
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Direct Dating of Chinese Immovable Cultural Heritage
Quaternary, 2021 The most extensive corpus of ancient immovable cultural heritage is that of global rock art. Estimating its age has traditionally been challenging, rendering it difficult to integrate archaeological evidence of early cultural traditions.
Robert G. Bednarik
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Ghadamgah: the Natural or Carved Human Footprints and its Significance in the Iranian Religious Beliefs before and after the Advent of Islam [PDF]
پژوهش های تاریخی, 2020 Ghadamgahs are sacred places in Iran date back to ancient and historical eras, serving as symbols of Islamic and cultural heritage. Usually, sculpted human footprints at these sites are mostly attributed to the journey across Iran by the Eighth Imam Ali ...
Nasrollah Abbassi, Hadi Soleimani Abhari
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BEGL: boundary enhancement with Gaussian Loss for rock-art image segmentation
Heritage Science, 2023 Rock-art has been scratched, carved, and pecked into rock panels all over the world resulting in a huge number of engraved figures on natural rock surfaces that record ancient human life and culture.
Chuanping Bai +4 more
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The Petroglyphs of Yandaklıdere
Ankara Araştırmaları Dergisi, 2022 Rock Art have been studied by scientists in various research institutions for many years, and studies on this subject, as well as the publishing of papers, have occurred in Türkiye in recent years.
Mustafa Beyazıt +1 more
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Image of inverted World Tree on the stone slab and vessels of the Bronze Age [PDF]
Archaeoastronomy and Ancient Technologies, 2016 The article presents the results of the study of petroglyphs on a unique stone slab discovered near the kurgan 1 of the kurgan field Varvarinsky I (Rostov Oblast, Russia).
Vodolazhskaya, L.N. +2 more
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