M. McLuhan: Between medium and mediatization by Penner, Regina Vladimirovna

“…They have evolved from the simplest sound signals to signs on various surfaces (from rock art to the modern alphabet) and an electronic signal. …”
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Effectiveness of 2020 Airborne Lidar for Identifying Archaeological Sites and Features on Guåhan (Guam) by Andrea Jalandoni, Maria Kottermair, Boyd Dixon, Victor Hara Torres

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El reconocimiento del arte mobilar cantábrico : la aportación del H. Alcalde del Río by Ignacio Barandiarán Maestu

“…Breuil) in order to fix the relationships between portable and rock art are analysed: the closed signs (tectiformes); the hind figures of multiple engravings; and the “aurignacian” style.…”
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The Forerunners on Heritage Stones Investigation: Historical Synthesis and Evolution by David M. Freire-Lista

“…Human activity has required, since its origins, stones as raw material for carving, construction and rock art. The study, exploration, use and maintenance of building stones is a global phenomenon that has evolved from the first shelters, manufacture of lithic tools, to the construction of houses, infrastructures and monuments. …”
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HIPÓTESES SOBRE UM CONJUNTO DE GRAFISMOS RUPESTRES NO RIO GRANDE DO NORTE, BRASIL by Carlos Rios, Valdeci dos Santos Júnior

“…This paper describes observations of morphological details of some of these graphics paying attention to the signifier, ie, the image represented, trying to associate with functional and constructive aspects of boats used by indigenous groups, and investigate other hypotheses by researchers from Brazilian rock art. KEY-WORDS: Arqueology, boats, Rio Grande do Norte…”
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Des céréales et du lait au Sahara et au Sahel, de l’épipaléolithique à l’âge des métaux by Christian Dupuy

“…Several documented sources demonstrate this: figurative milk-producing female animals and milking scenes in Saharan rock art, slaughtering of young calves and kids in the Libyan desert, fat from cow’s milk preserved inside potsherds found in the Tadrart Akoukas.…”
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Archaeoacoustics around the World: A Literature Review (2016–2022) by Gustavo Navas-Reascos, Luz M. Alonso-Valerdi, David I. Ibarra-Zarate

“…In the first topic, three subtopics were identified: (1) measurement and characterization of places, (2) rock art, and (3) simulation, auralization, and virtualization. …”
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Deep ancestry of Bornean hunter-gatherers supports long-term local ancestry dynamics by Pradiptajati Kusuma, Murray P. Cox, Graeme Barker, Herawati Sudoyo, J. Stephen Lansing, Guy S. Jacobs

“…Summary: Borneo was a crossroad of ancient dispersals, with some of the earliest Southeast Asian human remains and rock art. The island is home to traditionally hunter-gatherer Punan communities, whose origins, whether of subsistence reversion or long-term foraging, are unclear. …”
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Evaluating the Morphology of Pictographs in Lorestan, Iran Case Study: Dog Motif by sara sadeghi, javanmardzadeh ardeshir, manijeh hadian dehkordi, reza rezaloo

“…Dogs are found in different scenes and poses in Iranian rock art in all four cultural regions (i.e., north, west, south, and east). …”
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The Architectural Coincidence: guessing consciously, gauging unconsciously by Wang, Yun, Wu, Haotian

“…Using naturally-formed rock art and intuitive model-making that engages hands as the prompts in combination with engaging the digital tools, we aim to show the possibility of pursuing a precise design result without the limit of human consciousness, and of pursuing a natural result without the necessity of unconsciousness. …”
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Interpreting the apparent lunar symbolism on a Fremont Indian pendant by John K. Lundwall, John McHugh, Elizabeth Nagengast-Stevens

“…The paper cites archaeological, ethnographic, rock art, and mitochondrial DNA data certifying that the Fremont people were of Ancestral Puebloan ethnicity and are therefore culturally and genetically related to the occupants of the modern pueblos located in the states of New Mexico and Arizona, USA. …”
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Atributos e descritores propostos para a arte rupestre da Idade do Ferro no Vale do Côa by Natália Botica, Luís Luís, José-Paulo Silva

“…El presente trabajo se desarrolló en el marco del proyecto RARAA, financiado por la Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia (FCT) «COA / OVD / 0097 / 2019- Rock Art Open Access Repository», con el objetivo de estudiar el arte rupestre de la Edad de Hierro en el Valle del Côa y compartir en acceso abierto tanto la estructura de datos como los datos y metadatos del proyecto, imágenes, modelos 3D, descriptores y vocabularios. …”
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Methodological Approach (In Situ and Laboratory) for the Characterisation of Late Prehistoric Rock Paintings—<i>Penedo Gordo</i> (NW Spain) by Jose Santiago Pozo-Antonio, Beatriz Comendador Rey, Lara Alves Bacelar, Pablo Barreiro

“…Moreover, colouring materials exhumed from the excavation and collected in the immediate surroundings of the rock outcrop were analysed in order to scrutinise the provenience rock art’s raw materials. Laboratory analysis consisted of stereomicroscopy, X-ray diffraction, Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy and scanning electron microscopy. …”
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Cross-Modality Information Transfer: A Hypothesis about the Relationship among Prehistoric Cave Paintings, Symbolic Thinking, and the Emergence of Language by Nóbrega, Vitor A., Miyagawa, Shigeru, Lesure, Cora Lea

“…We also suggest that the earliest rock art found in Africa may constitute one of the first fossilized proxies for the expression of full-fledged human linguistic behavior.…”
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Volumetric Obscurance as a New Tool to Better Visualize Relief from Digital Elevation Models by Tanguy Rolland, Fabrice Monna, Jean François Buoncristiani, Jérôme Magail, Yury Esin, Benjamin Bohard, Carmela Chateau-Smith

“…These methods are evaluated on three DEMs at different resolutions and scales: a freely accessible DEM from JAXA DEM covering part of North-East Tanzania, a DEM corresponding to rock art in Siberia, and a DEM of an archaeological Bronze Age funeral structure. …”
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3D-ICONS Ireland – fulfilling the potential of a rich 3D resource by Anthony Corns, Gary Devlin, Aaron Deevy, Robert Shaw, Linda Shine

“…The list of Irish icons range from wider cultural landscapes to smaller ornately carved stones and includes a wide range of chronological periods: from Neolithic rock art from 2500 BC to Derry's 17th-century fortifications. …”
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Climate change risk assessment of heritage tourism sites within South African national parks by D. Chikodzi, G. Nhamo, K. Dube, L. Chapungu

“…South African national parks are home to numerous heritage sites, including unique ecosystems, prehistoric ruins and rock art, which are still undocumented. This research assesses the risks imposed by climate change and variability on heritage sites within selected South African national parks. …”
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Unravelling the skills and motivations of Magdalenian artists in the depths of Atxurra Cave (Northern Spain) by Diego Garate, Olivia Rivero, Joseba Rios-Garaizar, Mª Ángeles Medina-Alcaide, Martin Arriolabengoa, Iñaki Intxaurbe, Juan F. Ruiz-López, Ana Belén Marín-Arroyo, Juan Rofes, Paula García Bustos, Antonio Torres, Sergio Salazar

“…This evidence supports the role of rock art as a visual communication system in Upper Palaeolithic societies.…”
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Portable X-ray Fluorescence Analysis of Levantine and Schematic Art Pigments from the River Vero Shelters (Huesca, NE Spain) by Pablo Martín-Ramos, José Antonio Cuchí-Oterino, Manuel Bea-Martínez

“…The River Vero canyon (Huesca, Spain) contains an exceptional archaeological legacy with more than sixty rock shelters with cave paintings and forms part of the World Heritage ‘Rock Art of the Mediterranean Basin on the Iberian Peninsula’. …”
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KEBERADAAN SITUS GUA HARIMAU DI KAWASAN PERBUKITAN KARTS PADANG BINDU, SUMATERA SELATAN by Lorensia, Desra, Mayasari, S.T., M.T, Elisabet Dwi

“…Gua Harimau juga memiliki temuan yang sangat luar biasa, yaitu ditemukan adanya lukisan pada dinding gua (rock art) yang menjadikan Gua Harimau menjadi satu-satunya dari 12 gua yang ada pada saat ini yang memiliki lukisan dinding gua di Wilayah Padang Bindu. …”
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