[PDF] Top 20 GIS Use in Open-Air Rock Art Conservation: the Case of the Côa Valley, Portugal

... It is proposed that, conservation wise, each outcrop containing rock art is differently affected by slope, aspect and solar radiation.. Therefore, the accurate determination of the preci[r] ... See full document

... that the object to be conserved is not only the engraved areas but the totality of the ...assumption in planning and implementing conservation interventions if we also ... See full document

... 7, in which it was found an engraved fragment of the panel (Aubry and Sampaio, ...to the gravetto-solutrean (Baptista et al., 2008). It is an art that follows contemporary Palaeolithic ... 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

... available in Baptista (2009) suggest that the density of rock art of the older phase in the Côa does not have any equivalent in other ... See full document

... 2007 in layer 8. Although it does not connect directly with the incomplete figures on rock panel 1, the position of the engravings and the resemblance between these and ... See full document

... one of the Park’s chief priorities was to gain a more comprehensive knowledge of the Côa Valley rock art conservation ...called in to give their ... See full document

... intention of the organization of space by recent Pre-Historic ...unlike the Medal Terrace or the Crestelos area, which are both places of habitat (although in the ... See full document

... Before the calculation, the study area was divided into two datasets (model and external validation) of equal area and same geological characteristics ...Age rock art are present ... 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

... 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 ... See full document

... characteristic of Portuguese Palaeolithic rock art is its vast number of open-air sites in comparison with its cave art, which is only to be found in a ... See full document

... and the site of Vale Figueira, rock no. 1 of Fariseu ...one of the keys to the systematisation of the Côa’s Quaternary ...only the upper part ... 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

... from these locations, suggest an association with undated and defined human occupation activi- ties on floodplain erosiorial deposits. Mean- while, we must he cautious in generaliz[r] ... See full document

... out. In a way, it is a case of establishing if there is an addition or subtraction of meaning to a ...devoid of any aesthetic concerns, and without any possible subtext, except perhaps ... See full document

... seen the attractive, color photo-laden, trade-market publications of Altamira (Saura and Beltr´an, 1998 ) and of Ekain and Altxerri (Altuna, 1997 ...). In response to concern for ... See full document

... Kathmandu Valley has been centre of bat studies since 1835 (Bates & Harrison, ...species of bats had been documented from Kathmandu Valley including two species of fruit bats until ... See full document

... to the success of this slow but steady process of changing mentalities was the PAVC’s ...seeking the active involvement of all stakeholders, the park strongly supports ... See full document

... as the cave was too humid and its rock too friable to have preserved art for so long, so erosion and weathering must long ago have destroyed any palaeolithic figures produced outside — this despite ... See full document