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Seminar – Lectures – Fieldwork – Excursions

The international RockArtSeminar offers the opportunity to attend lectures, as well as the chance to work on some of the most beautiful panels in Northern Europe together with 25 – 30 participants from different countries - within the project:
Documentation and Registration of RockArt in Tanum UNESCO World Heritage Area.

May 2010 - The rock art magazine ADORANTEN – Focus: Rock Art on the World Heritage List

The new RockArt magazine ADORANTEN is now available. This years issue contains among others articles about the cave of Altamira, the Tsodilo Hills in Botswana and the Rock art paintings in Serra de Capivara in Brazil.

Some of the articles can be seen here



May 2010 During the first week of May, we have searched, cleaned and prepaired some beautifull rocks in the Tanum World Heritage Area. It was a good and rewarding week. We found two completely new panels as well as new images on excisting panels. The panels are now ready to be documented during the Workweek in week 30, 2010.

We have uploaded a beautifull video regarding the documentation of the rockcarvings on Youtube.


10 February 2010 - Preparing rock art sites for documentation

The localisation of the panels is an important part of the documentation process, but unfortunately often too time consuming to integrate it in the workweek itself. The recognision week offers by far the best possibility to understand and appreciate the carvings location in the landscape.

The recognision week is planned in week 18 - 2010, starting Saturday May 1 and ending May 8. In this week we will search, clean and prepair all the panels that will be documented during the Workweek in week 30.

For more information please contact Ellen Meijer
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28 June 2009 - Documentation of Rock Art in Tanum

Tanums Hällristningsmuseum publish a series called Documentation and Registration of Rock Art in Tanum. These publications describe the work in geographically demarcated fields of carvings as the work on each of these is completed. A new publication is number three in the series and is subtitled Kalleby, Finntorp and Ryk.

For the first time a publication like this is based 100% on the rubbing documentation, which gives a very high degree of objectivity of both rock art and the surface of the rock. The complete documentation of the panels offers a new possibility for both researchers and the public to see complete pictures and not just small parts taken out of the composition and the (semantic) context. 198 pages, fully illustrated, colour print incl. DVD with the documentation.

More details here

6 May 2009 - The rock art magazine ADORANTEN – Focus: Rock Art on the World Heritage List

In 1979 UNESCO, upon suggestion of Emmanuel Anati and the formal proposal of Regione Lombardia, set Valcamonica rock art into the World Heritage List.

From that day rock art, like all other archaeological and historical heritage was accepted as equally part of the global heritage of mankind.

Rock art constitutes a unique and particularly heritage through its antiquity, since it represents an uninterrupted chain of 40.000 years or more.

The aim of the present and coming issues of Adoranten is to present World Heritage sites all over the world.

See some of the publication's articles here

24. märts 2009 - Preparing rock art sites for documentation

In week 18 (April 26 - May 2) the annual recognition week is planned. During this week the main objective is to re-locate the carvings and prepare them for the documentation at the workshop in week 30.

The anticipation at the site and the thrill of (re)discovering the rockcarving that may have been covered with earth for 20 or 30 years is just as exciting. As with the workweek, the recognition week gives you the opportunity to see, feel and experience the beauty of the carvings up close.

For more information please contact Ellen Meijer

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14. märts 2009 - Lågteknologiskt förpassas dokumentationen in i dataåldern

Svenskt HällristningsForskningsArkiv – ett nationellt projekt för uppbyggnad och etablering av en databas och ett arkiv för hällristningsdokumentation och forskning vid Göteborgs universitet, finansierat av Riksbankens Jubileumsfond och Riksantikvarieämbetet. Projektet har sin fysiska hemvist på Tanums HällristningsMuseum, Underslös Läs mera...