Rock art research is one of the areas in which digital methods have found great acceptance and applications during the last decade. For this reason, there is a steady development of new digital methods not only in the realm of digital recording but also for data analysis and interpretation, often accompanied by new theoretical approaches. This workshop is intended to bring together rock art researchers who share an interest or have made contributions to this field of rock art research.

Program

Tuesday 19 March 2024

10:00
Registration

10:30
Workshop Welcome
Silvia Kutscher (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Rebecca Döhl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)

Session 1: Rock Art and Digital Documentation

10:45
Alia Vázquez Martínez (Universidade De Santiago De Compostela)
Open-air rock engravings in the northwest of the Iberian Peninsula: New research and recent lines of work

11:30
Miguel Carrero-Pazos (Universidade De Santiago De Compostela)
Making visible the invisible. 3D imaging techniques to enhance rock art carvings

12:15
Coffee Break

12:30
Julian Jansen van Rensburg, Aaron Gidding (Chronicle Heritage)
Rock Art Recording: A LiDAR approach to rapid 3D recording of rock art

13:15
Paolo Medici (Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici)
From stones to byte: the process of digitalize rock art tracings and data

14:00
Discussion

14:30
Lunch Break

Session 2: Rock art and Digital Processing

15:30
Rebecca Döhl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Spatial movement and rock art – next try

16:15
Ashely Green (University of Gothenburg)
Merging Past and Present: Accessible data and digital tools for interpreting Scandinavian rock art

17:00
Discussion

Wednesday 20 March 2024

Roundtable: Towards a core-data model for digital rock art documentation and publication

10:00
Eymard Fäder (Universität zu Köln)
Oliver Vogels (Universität zu Köln)
Simone Mühl (Deutsches Archäologisches Institut (DAI))

12:30
Discussion

13:00
Lunch Break

Session 3: Rock Art Analysis and Theory

14:00
Nourhan Moustafa Ahmed (Freie Universität Berlin)
Palimpsest rock art of the Chufu region in the Egyptian Western Desert, as a cultural process of interactions

14:45
Paweł Lech Polkowski (Muzeum Archeologiczne w Poznaniu)
Beyond the image: rock art, deities and landscape in an Egyptian oasis

15:30
Final Discussion

16:00
Workshop Closing
Rebecca Döhl (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)
Nourhan Moustafa Ahmed (Freie Universität Berlin)

Registration

Until March 3rd
Please register by sending an email to nourhan.ahmed@berliner-antike-kolleg.org

Organizers

Dr. Rebecca Döhl
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute of Archaeology – Archaeology and Cultural History of Northeast Africa
rebecca.doehl@hu-berlin.de

Nourhan Moustafa Ahmed, M.A.
Freie Universität Berlin, BerGSAS – AOVIS
nourhaa94@zedat.fu-berlin.de

Funded by

Berlin Graduate School of Ancient Studies (BerGSAS)

Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institute for Archaeology, Archaeology and Cultural History of North-East Africa