Weathering Processes on Sandstone Painting and Carving Surfaces at Prehistoric Rock Sites in Southern Spain

Excavations at the Prehistoric Sites of Tepe Dehno and Tepe East Dehno, Shahdad, South-eastern Iran

Dasht-e Lut (Lut Desert) is archaeologically well-known in Near East thanks to the presence, on its western edge, of the Bronze Age urban centre of Shahdad. In 2012, the author launched a three-season field project in the area of Shahdad, with an agenda articulated around three main research points: an extensive archaeological survey along the western edge of the Lut Desert, the stratigraphic e...

Rock Painting , South Africa

s were quite different from those made directly by humans, the subjects could not tell which were better [8]. For browsing and searching large information archives, many users are familiar with Web interfaces. Therefore, our abstracting tool can compile its results into an html page, including the anchors for playing short video clips (see Figure 5). The top of the page in Figure 5 shows the fi...

Modeling and Visualization of Rock Carving Cultural Heritage Sites in Dazu

Over the past few years, due to the advances in laser scanning techniques, 3D modeling software, computer power and virtual reality, many cultural heritage applications require 3D modeling and realistic visualization of the heritage models for various purposes. In such a project to virtualize the Dazu Rock Carvings, we proposed a commercially available solution. In this paper, we present this s...

AMS Dates from Four Late Prehistoric Period Rock Art Sites in West Central Montana

Techniques for Measuring Rock Weathering: Application to a Dated Fan Segment Sequence in Southern Tunisia

There are a number of techniques for estimating the amount of weathering a clast has undergone. These usually have the objective of establishing an ordinal chronology of geomorphological surfaces, or investigation of site-specific conditions affecting weathering rates. Three such techniques are applied to a dated sequence of alluvial fan segments in southern Tunisia. Two of these techniques dep...