Fading Rock Art Landscapes: evaluating the database in rock-art landscape research
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Primary contact
Dr
Margarita
Diaz-Andreu
Department of Archaeology
Durham University
South Road
Durham
DH1 3LE
England
Tel: 0191 3341127
Fax: 0191 3341101
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- ADS Collection: 431
- DOI:https://doi.org/10.5284/1000092
- How to cite using this DOI
Overview
This research project aims to assess the rate and nature of degradation of prehistoric rock-art through a combination of visual and microscopic analytical techniques and accumulated observation in order to examine the extent to which landscape perspectives in rock-art studies can have confidence in the representativeness of their databases and therefore the conclusions based upon them.
The research objectives are:
- To investigate visually-evident weathering in prehistoric decorated rocks through the study of photographs made during the last decades
- To assess the impact of weathering and natural biological species such as mosses, lichen, algae, fungi and bacteria on prehistoric carvings
- To examine material loss at rock-art sites over the year
- To evaluate the impact that degradation of rock-art sites may have on landscape studies
- To disseminate the results of this project through academic publications and a specially-created web page
- To establish the potential for longer-term recording of rock-art degradation
