We present a new multi-analytical approach to the characterization of black pigments in Spanish Levantine rock art. This new protocol seeks to identify the raw materials that were used, as well as reconstruct the different technical gestures and decision-making processes involved in the obtaining of these black pigments. For the first of these goals, the pictorial matter of the black figurative...

TARİHÖNCESİ (PREHİSTORİK) RESİM SANATI VE TARİHLENDİRME YÖNTEMLERİ ÜZERİNE BİR DEĞERLENDİRME AN EVALUATION ON PREHISTORIC ART AND DATING METHODS FOR PAINTINGS ABSTRACT The early examples of painting, especially in caves and rock shelters, surprised both scientists artists terms prehistoric man's ability to depict the environment. first discoveries made half 1800s also led shaking prejudices abo...

Until recently the largest and single most significant collection of Hopi Indian art lay buried amidst the dusty recesses of the Peabody Museum. The "Thomas V . Kearn Collection of Hopi Material Culture ," consisting of approximately 4,500 ethnographic objects ranging from prehistoric pots, baskets, and textile fragments to nineteenthcentury wooden tablitas and ceremonial art , was acquired thr...

This paper presents the first results achieved within the Indiana MAS project funded by Italian Ministry for Education, University and Research, MIUR. We discuss how the AgentSketch holon belonging to the Indiana MAS has been extended to cope with images, besides hand drawn sketches, and has been tested in the domain of Mount Bego’s prehistoric rock art (southern French Alps). The way Indiana M...

The study of prehistoric mapping in Europe and its borderlands, as in other continents, requires a new beginning. In the past scholars have been handicapped not only by a severe shortage of evidence but also by misguided attitudes toward the intellectual capacity of early man. In addition, they have failed to consider either the diagnostic characteristics of prehistoric maps or the principles t...

Many elements of ancient Maya culture — language, art, ecology, economics, politics — have a geographic aspect and can be profitably investigated through geographic analysis. We are developing a geographic information system (GIS) for the purpose of studying prehistoric Maya settlement and society. The GIS is composed of archaeological, epigraphic, and locational data. It includes the whole May...

The problem of the development abstract forms in art and their coexistence with naturalistic is one key ones Art History. In Prehistoric art, as other eras, these often coexist even within same cultural space. Their occurrence due to a number factors, disclosure which allows us reconstruct characteristics particular culture more correctly. An important role among factors played by social that f...

This paper presents the architecture of a holonic multi-agent system for rock art interpretation and discusses the results achieved within the “Indiana MAS” project. We show how the AgentSketch and the ImageRec holons belonging to the Indiana MAS, able to cope with hand drawn sketches and images respectively, have been tested in the domain of Mount Bego’s prehistoric rock art (southern French A...

Human modification of natural landscapes has influenced surface processes in many settings on Earth. Quantitative data comparing the distribution and behavior of geologic phenomena before and after human arrival are sparse but urgently required to evaluate possible anthropogenic influences on geologic hazards. We conduct field and imagery-based mapping, statistical analysis, and numerical model...