Session: #636

Theme & Session Format

Theme:
Archaeology and the European Year of Cultural Heritage
Session format:
Session, made up of a combination of papers, max. 15 minutes each

Title & Content

Title:
Conservation issues and preventive measures in open-air rock art sites
Content:
While related to different chronologies and cultural traditions around the world, open-air rock art sites share high levels of vulnerability derived from their continued exposure to the action of different degrading natural and anthropogenic agents, threatening their long-term preservation.
This session aims at bringing together scholars, cultural managers and stakeholders with an interest in the long-term preservation, conservation and management of open-air rock art to share knowledge, discuss and/or develop:

- An inventory of pathologies affecting the art and the rock surface

- The different methods used to identify pathologies

- Preventive measures introduced to mitigate impact, in addition to ongoing evaluation and improvement strategies

- Long-term monitoring methods and protocols of both the art and the preventive measures introduced

- Specific strategies for the identification and mitigation of impacts relating to climate change
Keywords:
rock-art, open-air, conservation, preventive measures
Session associated with MERC:
no
Session associated with CIfA:
no
Session associated with SAfA:
no

Organisers

Main organiser:
Prof. Ines Domingo Sanz (Spain) 1
Co-organisers:
Melissa Marshall (Australia) 2
Irene Rodríguez (Spain) 3
Affiliations:
1. ICREA / Universitat de Barcelona
2. Nulungu Research Institute. The University of Notre Dame Australia
3. Universitat de Barcelona