[PDF] Top 20 The Côa Valley: research and management of a World Heritage rock art site

... Dr Zilhão, fonner Director of lhe Archaeological Park of Portugal has discovered its Palaeolithic at lhe same time as Foz Côa and fonner President ofthe Portugues[r] ... See full document

... For the Pleistocene record, we can thus de fine two main phases of weathering (W1 and W2 in this paper) of the schist outcrops in the CôaRiver ...phases of weathering are ... See full document

... inaccessibility of some riverside areas, and the hard work needed to cultivate the sometimes very steep slopes, has meant that human activity in these zones has been basically ...presumably ... See full document

... developing and coordinating a conservation project for Côa Valley rock ...monitor and prevent the effects that could infl uence the stability of the rocky ... See full document

... remains and elements of portable art in occupation deposits dating to the end of the Upper Palaeolithic, already encountered in 1999 in front of rock panel 1 ... See full document

... that rock art, as any other product on human activity, anywhere and at any given moment, has manifold overlapping ...today‟s world of „Homo globalis‟, it is common sense, perhaps a ... See full document

... Slope chart of the Côa valley and surrounding plateau regions, with location of the Upper Palaeolithic rock art and settlement sites currently known.. However, for reason[r] ... See full document

... argument of why engravers overwhelmingly preferred the slopes that receive higher amounts of sunshine will revolve around two ...consider the UP human habitat sites already identified in ... See full document

... inscribed the Côa Valley in the World Heritage List, the value of the engravings was generally accepted by the Portuguese public ...years of ... See full document

... communication management and methods within art events activated by professional staff and by communities of “cultural citizens”, ...in the muse- um, in order to improve ... See full document

... in the issue of ‘actual situation of tourism’ that respondents often focused their ...While the central government has formulated national policy, tourist resorts are more commonly better ... See full document

... wisdom the idea that Palaeolithic parietal art was confined to caves where it could be kept hidden from uninitiated ...that the age of hundreds of petroglyphs discovered on exposed ... See full document

... as the idiosyncratic – or aesthetic – qualities of the total art object it is now relevant to pose a series of questions that can help to define the limits of ... See full document

... INTRODUCTION: SAVING THE CÔA ROCK ART AND THE REORGANIZATION OF PORTUGUESE ARCHAEOLOGY Although Nelson Rebanda-the archaeologist working for the electricity company (EDP) [r] ... See full document

... visitor management measures such as an entrance fee, viewing platforms, presence of guides ...control the impact that large visitor numbers have on the ...congestion and crowding at ... See full document

... studied rock art cycle in the Côa Valley is the schematic ...composed of 41 panels over 13 different ...Painting and engraving continue to be the main ...in ... See full document

... 2006, the Archaeological Park of Foz Côa (PAVC) organised a three-day visit to three areas within the Park, inviting three conservation professionals (Fernando Carrera Ramírez, an ... See full document

... (1997) - The Rock Art of the Côa Valley (Portugal) and its Archaeological Context: First Results of Current Research.. Journal of European Archaeology, 5, Oxford, p.[r] ... See full document

... Over the past few decades, the international archaeological community has paid increasing interest to conservation her- itage management (CHM) problems, as one can see from the vast literature ... See full document

... Since the opening in 1996 ofthe Parque Arqueológico Vale do Côa(Côa Valley Archaeological park, PAVC) the visitation scheme implemented has come under intense scrutiny and criticism,[r] ... See full document