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Documenting Archaeological Petroglyph Sites with the Use of 3D Terrestrial Laser Scanners—A Case Study of Petroglyphs in Kyrgyzstan

open access: yesApplied Sciences (Switzerland), 2022
The use of 3D terrestrial laser scanners (TLS) in the documentation of archaeological sites is an effective method of collecting information about the area under study.
Jacek Kesik   +2 more
exaly   +3 more sources

Rock art at the pleistocene/holocene boundary in Eastern South America. [PDF]

open access: yesPLoS 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
doaj   +2 more sources

From the DOP Petroglyph Unit Archives: an Old Kingdom “dancing girl” image from Site 30/450-E4-6 [PDF]

open access: yesPolish 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The rock art discovered in the 1980s and 1990s by the Dakhleh Oasis Project Petroglyph Unit is for the most part unpublished or only briefly mentioned in reports.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
doaj   +1 more source

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]

open access: yesنگره, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Direct Dating of Chinese Immovable Cultural Heritage

open access: yesQuaternary, 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
doaj   +1 more source

Ghadamgah: the Natural or Carved Human Footprints and its Significance in the Iranian Religious Beliefs before and after the Advent of Islam [PDF]

open access: yesپژوهش 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
doaj   +1 more source

BEGL: boundary enhancement with Gaussian Loss for rock-art image segmentation

open access: yesHeritage 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
doaj   +1 more source

The Petroglyphs of Yandaklıdere

open access: yesAnkara 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
doaj   +1 more source

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