The Landscape Context of Valcamonica/Valtellina Alpine Rock-Art

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First Year Report – Craig Alexander Moving now to diachronic hypotheses we can ask about the formation of place from space – which sites were re-used over time? Are they simply the easiest of access? What are their characteristics? Are they close to water? Close to paths? At places of greater than average viewshed? At places of enhanced visual exposure? Do certain petroglyphs from one period typically co-occur with certain types from earlier periods? Do the locational characteristics of sites with a predominance of later petroglyph forms differ from those with a predominance of earlier forms? What does this tell us about the changing interrelationships of people, activities and land? More general questions also suggest themselves: Are particular petroglyphs typically oriented in particular ways (as Barfield & Chippindale 1997 suggest can be the case)? How are large and small petroglyph panels situated relative to each other and to other landscape features, both geologic/hydrologic and anthropogenic? In sum, my research will not only provide new insight into the changing landscape context of the rock-art of Valcamonica but will also demonstrate the value of the application of “experiential” or “humanistic” GIS in the context of rock-art archaeology – if any element of the archaeological record deserves to be seen this way it is surely the often seemingly intensely personal images of rock-art. 21
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