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Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic Database - http://bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/rockart.html
Database of over 10,000 citations to the world's rock art literature, with an emphasis on English language and North American citations. Compiled by M. Leigh Marymor and hosted by the Bancroft Library, Berkley. |
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Rock Art Pages - http://www.jqjacobs.net/rock_art/
A series of articles by James Q. Jacobs on the rock art of the American Southwest. Illustrated with photographs, ink renditions and background graphics. Includes free educational materials and desktop patterns. |
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International Federation of Rock Art Organizations (IFRAO) - http://www.cesmap.it/ifrao/ifrao.html
Federation of national and regional organizations promoting the study of rock art and cognitive archaeology. Features news, reports, information on conferences, and contact details. |
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Côa Valley Archaeological Park, Portugal - http://www.ipa.min-cultura.pt/coa/
Encompasses an important array of rock-shelters with prehistoric painted and engraved rocks. Illustrated description of the site, its rock art and the Paleolithic period, with visitor information. |
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Bolivian Rock Art Research Society (SIARB) - http://www.siarb-bolivia.org/
Society for investigation and recording of rock paintings and petroglyphs, protection and conservation of rock art sites, as well as publication of scientific reports and education of the general public. |
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Rock Art Research Institute - http://rockart.wits.ac.za/
University of the Witwatersrand research project focused on Southern African rock art and its preservation. Archive, staff and project profiles, publications, related links. |
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Rock Art Research Institute - http://rockart.wits.ac.za/origins/index.php?section=46
Based in the Department of Archaeology at the University of the Witwatersrand, the Institute is devoted to full time research on Southern African rock art and its preservation. Staff and research profile, publications list, and photographs. |
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UCLA Rock Art Archive - http://www.sscnet.ucla.edu/ioa/rockart/
This archive is a repository of several major private collections of rock art data and is open to visitors and researchers. Staff profiles, volunteer programs, collection information, grants, and related links. |
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Upper Midwest Rock Art Research Association - http://www.tcinternet.net/users/cbailey/
Association is dedicated to publicizing the petroglyph and pictograph research being conducted in the Upper Midwest of the United States. Contains links to rock art information across North America. |
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Christopher Chippindale's Rock Art References - http://www.mcdonald.cam.ac.uk/projects/Chip/Chip001.htm
Contains text of several papers and publications, mostly authored by Chippindale, a researcher at Cambridge University. |
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Rock Art - http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bclee/rockart/rockart.html
Photographs by Brian and Dave Lee of petroglyphs, pictographs, cave paintings, mostly Archaic styles of the Southwestern U.S. |
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Bradshaw Paintings - http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/bradshaws/
The Bradshaw Paintings are incredibly sophisticated, as you will see from the 32 pictures in the Paintings Section, yet they are not recent creations but originate from an unknown past period which some suggest could have been 50,000 years ago. |
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Rupestre.net: A Rock Art Site - http://www.rupestre.net/ralinks/
Includes a worldwide database of rock art links. |
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C.I.A.R.U.- Rock Art Research Center - http://www.geocities.com/Athens/Parthenon/6994/indexi.htm
Organization whose objective is to preserve and to make known the prehistoric rock art of Uruguay. |
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Utah Rock Art Research Association - http://www.utahrockart.org
Organization dedicated to the education about and preservation of Native American rock art. Annual symposium information, membership, publications, gallery of rock art. |
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Rock Art Investigations - http://mc2.vicnet.net.au/home/vhra/web/index.html
Images, links, description, and bibliography of rock art in Peru and Bolivia. |
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Anasazi Rock Art - http://raysweb.net/rockart/
Photographs of rock art of the Anasazi and other pueblo dwelling early inhabitants of the Four Corners Region of the United States. |
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University of Durham: Rock Art Past & Present - http://www.dur.ac.uk/prehistoric.art/
Research papers on the recording, conservation, presentation and interpretation of Prehistoric Rock Art. Also course modules and links. |
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Petroglyphs and Rock Art - http://www.petroglyphs.us
Features captioned photographs and articles about rock art petroglyphs and pictographs. Mostly lesser known sites in the California deserts and the adjacent southwest. |
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Archives of ROCK-ART - http://lists.asu.edu/archives/rock-art.html
Rock art discussion list. |
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Anasazi Rock Art Photos - http://moab-utah.com/anasazi/rockart.html
Photos of Anasazi Indian rock art, otherwise known as petroglyphs. These pictoral stories were chipped out of the desert varnish in Entrada sandstone about 600 years ago. |
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Stand Up for the Burrup - http://www.standupfortheburrup.com
Stand Up for the Burrup is the website of Friends of Australian Rock Art, an international campaign group fighting to preserve the world's oldest and largest outdoor rock art landscape at the Dampier Archipeligo, Western Australia. |
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Earliest Evidence of Art found - http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/733747.stm
Archaeologists in Zambia uncover evidence that early humans used paint for aesthetic purposes far earlier than previously thought. |
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Southwestern United States Rock Art Gallery - http://net.indra.com/~dheyser/rockart.html
Images of rock art from sites in Utah, Wyoming, and Colorado. |
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Native American Petroglyphs, Pictographs, and Rock Art of the Southwestern United States - http://net.indra.com/~dheyser/
Large personal photo gallery. |
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Australian Rock Art Research Association - http://www.sli.unimelb.edu.au/aura/
Group whose focus is in the fields of rock art, palaeoart studies and cognitive archaeology. Discussion forum, book reviews, announcements, and rock art gallery. |
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Dr. Marvin W. Rowe Research Group - http://www.chem.tamu.edu/rgroup/rowe/research.html
Brief profile and publications of a research group working on dating and DNA/phylogenetic analysis of prehistoric rock paintings (pictographs). |
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International Rock Art Research Team - http://www.bradshaw.dk
Research project headed by James Cook University professor conducting systematic research ever on Western Australia's Bradshaw rock paintings, in an attempt to obtain World Heritage protection. Newsletter, links, team member profiles. |
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Rock Art at Rice - http://www.ruf.rice.edu/~raar/
Introduction to prehistoric art with an emphasis on the southwest and western United States. Dating, interpretive theories, image database, and conservation. |
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International Rock Art Database Project - http://www.cs.unm.edu/~brayer/rock/general.html
University of New Mexico computerized database system for the storage and analysis of rock art data being developed with the support of the National Park Service, the Sandia Pueblo and the Chamisa Foundation. |
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Rock Art of the Blood of the Ancestors Grotto - http://virtual.parkland.edu/lstelle1/len/center_for_social_research/BAG/BAG_main.html
Data collection and analysis of the prehistoric pictographs of the Blood of the Ancestors Grotto, Saline County, Illinois. |
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Colorado Historical Society: Rock Art Studies - http://www.coloradohistory-oahp.org/ programareas/paac/classinfo/RockArtBG.pdf
Details regarding course which provides a general overview of the field of rock art as part of the Program for Avocational Archaeological Certification. |
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Colorado Historical Society: Rock Art References - http://www.coloradohistory-oahp.org/ publications/pubs/1205b.pdf
Bibliography of Colorado sites, conservation issues, dating methods, research, regional studies, and videos [PDF File]. |
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Metaphysical Opportunities as a Tool of Rock Art Research - http://www.afs.org/partners/rus/event/rockart/arsen1.htm
Article by Arsen Faradjev which critiques various Russian approaches to the interpretation of rock art. |
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Rock Art Dating and Conservation - http://www.jqjacobs.net//rock_art/ra_conserve.html
Essays on rock art dating and the rational for rock art conservation. History of and continuing rock art destruction is discussed. |