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Digital Rock Art: beyond 'pretty pictures' [version 1; peer review: 2 approved, 1 approved with reservations] [PDF]
F1000Research, 2023 The term ‘Rock Art’ is loosely used in this article to refer to prehistoric carvings and paintings. Rock art research has changed profoundly in the last two decades.
Sofia Figueiredo Persson +1 more
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Proteomic and metagenomic insights into prehistoric Spanish Levantine Rock Art [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 The Iberian Mediterranean Basin is home to one of the largest groups of prehistoric rock art sites in Europe. Despite the cultural relevance of prehistoric Spanish Levantine rock art, pigment composition remains partially unknown, and the nature of the ...
Clodoaldo Roldán +4 more
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Australian Pleistocene rock art
Nature Human Behaviour, 2021 Obtaining accurate dates for rock art is important to both archaeologists and Aboriginal Traditional Owners, but a lack of organic material associated with rock art can make this challenging. Using radiocarbon dating of mud wasp nests, Finch et al.
Taçon, PSC
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Ontology of New Art and Survival of Art [PDF]
SHS Web of Conferences, 2023 Art is not an image work, but an image that people can see and an apparent result of the transcendent image presented by art; art is the ideological and spiritual product that’s processed from the high-end level of consciousness and thinking and ...
Wang Aishi
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Biological contributions to manganese oxides in rock varnish at Murujuga (Western Australia) [PDF]
Scientific ReportsRock varnish is a ubiquitous Mn-rich coating on exposed rock surfaces in arid environments, yet the mechanisms underlying its formation remain debated.
Ying-Li Wu +11 more
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Natural processes in the degradation of open-air rock-art sites: an urgency intervention scale to inform conservation. [PDF]
Open-air rock-art forms one of the most widely distributed categories of prehistoric material culture with examples recognized across the Old and New Worlds.
Fernandes, Antonio Pedro Martins do Mota Batarda
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Trabajos de Prehistoria, 2022 Este estudio ofrece nuevos datos sobre la apropiación local de los ideales asociados al guerrero en Europa durante la Edad del Bronce Final a través del nuevo estudio de los grabados de Cancho Roano y Arroyo Tamujoso 8, situados en el Suroeste de la ...
Marta Díaz-Guardamino +5 more
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Art and Influence, Presence and Navigation in Southern African Forager Landscapes
Religions, 2021 With earlier origins and a rebirth in the late 1990s, the New Animisms and the precipitate ‘ontological turn’ have now been in full swing since the mid-2000s. They make a valuable contribution to the interpretation of the rock arts of numerous societies,
Sam Challis, Andrew Skinner
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An etiology of human modernity
Anthropological Review, 2021 Following the refutation of the replacement hypothesis, which had proposed that a ‘superior’ hominin species arose in Africa and replaced all other humans existing at the time, the auto-domestication hypothesis remains the only viable explanation for the
Bednarik Robert G.
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Artificial weathering of rock types bearing petroglyphs from Murujuga, Western Australia
Heritage Science, 2022 Murujuga in Western Australia has the largest concentration of ancient rock engravings (petroglyphs) in the world. However, the Murujuga rock art is potentially threatened by local industrial air pollution, in particular by acid rain, but unambiguous ...
Jolam T. Neumann +7 more
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