PROBLEMS OF INDEXING IN DOCUMENTATION AND MAPPING OF ROCK ART SITES

DOI_disc_logo https://doi.org/10.14258/tpai(2022)34(4).-01
Keywords: indexing, database, mapping, documentation, rock art, petroglyphs

Abstract

In early 21st century, there were a number of tendencies in the search for rock art, mainly due to the development of digital technologies. The development of documentation and analysis tools (mapping of sites using drones and GNSS receivers, digital photography, three-dimensional modeling of individual sites elements) allowed researchers to start a continuous (rather than a selective) process documentation on the new technological base, using elements of a system approach. The next stage of these studies, to the extent that the quality of the documentation is maintained, is to accumulate knowledge about rock art in geographical information systems and databases. However, existing indexing systems of sites do not withstand the new digital reality and, for various reasons, are not suitable for use in digital information systems. The article summarizes the experience of creation of indexing systems in the studies of the beginning of the 20th — beginning of the 21st century. The authors present the principles of “topographic” indexing system, based on ignoring semantics and chronological attribution of images and thus separating the documentation of rock art from its interpretation.

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Author Biographies

Yu.M. Svoysky, Higher School of Economics, Institute of Archaeology of the RAS

engineer of the HSE Institute for Oriental and Classical Studies National Research University Higher School of Economics; specialist of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences

I.V. Abolonkova, Kuzbass Museum-Reserve “Tomskaya Pisanitsa”

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Research and Exposition department оf Kuzbass Museum-Reserve “Tomskaya Pisanitsa”

E.S. Levanova, Institute of Archaeology RAS, Russian State University for the Humanities

Candidate of Historical Sciences, Head of the Center of Paleoart of the Institute of Archaeology of the Russian Academy of Sciences; Russian State University for the Humanities

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Published
2022-12-26
How to Cite
Svoysky Y., Abolonkova I., Levanova E. PROBLEMS OF INDEXING IN DOCUMENTATION AND MAPPING OF ROCK ART SITES // THEORY AND PRACTICE OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL RESEARCH, 2022. Vol. 34, № 4. P. 9-24 DOI: 10.14258/tpai(2022)34(4).-01. URL: http://journal.asu.ru/tpai/article/view/12381.
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Vol 34 No 4 (2022)
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THEORETICAL AND METHODOLOGICAL ISSUES OF ARCHAEOLOGY

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