The Swedish Rock Art Research Archive (SHFA) has launched a new digital platform for their collection. The database includes more than 24,000 digitized images. Apart from the digitalised archival materials, there are high resolution images (#IIIF), laser scans, 3D etc available as CC-BY-ND.
The magnificent Balnuaran of Clava for today's #StandingStoneSunday. Three large cairns, each surrounded by stone circles, in the Nairn valley near Culloden. There is also a small kerbed cairn. Several of the stones are decorated with cup-marks. The site has given us the 'Clava cairn' type for a group of cairns spread over an area from the Cairngorms to the Black Isle. Just wonderful.
This will be fascinating, on #Maloti-Drakensberg #rockart dating to the Holocene #neoglacial in their montane environment, c.3500-2000 BP.
"As desirable game declined and hunting windows narrowed, we suggest that Neoglacial foragers sought to manage scheduling and social conflicts through enhanced spiritual negotiation with non-human entities in the landscape. Facilitated by the supernaturally charged nature of their elevated cosmos, this intensified spiritual labour may have found material expression in an elaborate new style of painting."
Can you see it? The outline of a #bear ground into the rock at Neshaugen-Sør. One of several rock art panel finds by local history enthusiasts in North #Norway#FindsFriday#Rockart Can you see the fore and hind legs, belly and back line? (we think it looks more like an elk figure). An example of the hunter-gatherer type of rock art believed to be from the older stone age. more photos from Kenneth on our page: https://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=59191#archaeology
One of the ancient petroglyphs I stumbled across today after going up the wrong canyon looking for another, more famous panel. Apparently the Ancestral Puebloans had wingsuits 800 years ago.
I hiked over the ridge, across the valley and up the next ridge and found the original rock art panel I had intended to visit, called the Procession Panel. Then went over the top of that ridge and down the next valley, the one in the earlier post, and back to the truck.
I shot lots of good photos of rock art today, but these will be in a blog post and a gallery that I will link to later.
Nice! Using parametric masks in Darktable I was able to enhance the extremely faded green pictographs in this panel! Green is a very rare color to see in Utah Four Corners area pictographs.
We have had our annual monitoring day today, where we log and photograph the conditions of all of the assets in our care at the Wemyss coast.
Caves, paths (not the Fife Coastal Path) and carvings.
And the weather was mostly wonderful, although the most recent storms have made the paths pretty tricky to navigate in places.
Looking forward to welcome visitors back for tours from the 7th April!
The symbols at Achnabrek (and Kilmartin) were created over 4,500 years ago.
Many of the symbols are circular hollow “cupmarks”, some surrounded by multiple concentric rings and with grooves running from them.
Different styles and techniques suggest many different artists over many years.
The designs were probably created during ritual ceremonies, perhaps to depict and communicate with the ‘otherworld’ of Gods and ancestors said to be present “within” or “beyond “ the rock. #rockart#scotland
So this is the pictograph to the left of the really crisp one seen in my last post. Sadly, this one has not fared well over the centuries. The left side of it has mostly been washed away by water running down the cliff face. I enhanced this one quite a bit so we could see some of the detail. When it was fresh, I think this one would have really been spectacular! It has many more elements to it than the last one I posted.
My collection of British Rock Art cards, prints and mugs are now available from DidgeriCoo. Influenced by cup and ring designs around the British Isles.
“Our newest #Archaeology Short Guide is available now!
Building on experience gained from Scotland's Rock Art Project, this guide is for community groups & those interested in discovering Rock Art.” #historic#environment#scotland#rockart#Kilmartin
A close crop of an earlier post from a couple of weeks ago. Also, since I'm on my home computer, I slightly enhanced it using a parametric mask in Darktable to reveal a bit more detail.
Nice pictograph and hand print I found hiking canyons in Utah the other day. (Note: I enhanced the saturation a bit in Darktable using parametric masks. The original is quite faded, sadly.)