scholarly journals Armenian Astro Tourism Map

2020 ◽  
pp. 133-139
Author(s):  
A. M. Mickaelian ◽  
S. V. Farmanyan ◽  
G. A. Mikayelyan
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Space Science ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
High Level ◽  
Medieval Universities ◽  
Rich History

Armenia is a country with rich history, as well as high-level science. It is rich in scientific, particularly in astronomical sites, among which archaeological sites related to science, medieval universities, modern scientific institutions and science related museums can be mentioned. Examples of archaeological sites are ancient observatories, petroglyphs (rock art) of astronomical nature, as well as intangible heritage, such as Armenian calendars and chronology tightly related to the astronomical knowledge. Modern observatories and astronomical institutions having tools or laboratories which can be presented in terms of tourism, are considered as astronomical tourism sites as well. Space museum is astronomy and space science related museum. Despite the fact that Astronomical (Astro) Tourism is a new direction, it has great perspectives, and Armenia has a great potential in this field. It is very important to introduce Armenia from this aspect. In this paper we present major astronomical tourism centers of Armenia and the whole picture as a map.

scholarly journals Reconnecting a Fragmented Monument through Digital Mapping: The City Walls of Athens

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 177-195
Author(s):  
Markos Katsianis ◽  
Stamatina Lampraki ◽  
Anna-Maria Theocharaki ◽  
Maria Pigaki ◽  
Leda Costaki ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Digital Media ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Geospatial Technologies ◽  
Archaeological Investigation ◽  
Digital Mapping ◽  
Cadastral Maps ◽  
Novel Approach ◽  
City Walls ◽  
High Level ◽  
The City

The fortifications of Athens have been a recurrent theme of archaeological investigation. In the past two centuries, parts of the walls have been located during rescue interventions at numerous sites in the urban fabric. At present, the visibility of the entire monument remains rather low as the traces of the walls are hidden beneath the modern city, marginalized within larger archaeological sites or preserved entirely by record. Despite the high level of scholarly work devoted to synthesize the available material, the volume of information accumulated over the years requires a novel approach that would systematize different types of evidence using digital media. In this respect, we attempt to revisit the city walls of Athens through the use of geospatial technologies. We target the informed development of an efficient GIS platform to record, store, integrate, explore and eventually disseminate resources on the Athenian fortifications. Our research employs published and archival sources (e.g. excavation drawings) in combination with historical maps (e.g. early cadastral maps, first maps of modern Athens) and complementary historical evidence (e.g. writings, illustrations, photography) to locate, document and integrate in space and time available data on lost and surviving fortification remains.

The Soviet Encyclopaedia on Africa

1963 ◽  
Vol 1 (3) ◽  
pp. 386-387
Author(s):  
I. Yastrebova
Keyword(s):  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
Soviet Union ◽  
Publishing House ◽  
The Soviet Union ◽  
Original Culture ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
The Rich ◽  
Academy Of Sciences ◽  
Rich History ◽  
Comprehensive Reference

The rich history and original culture of the peoples of Africa have long attracted attention in Russia. The first Russian books on Africa appeared as far back as the end of the eighteenth century. Since then about 600 books on Africa, including fundamental monographs, special anthologies, and booklets, have been published in our country; but the new encyclopaedia, Africa, is the first comprehensive reference book on this subject to be produced in the Soviet Union. It has been sponsored by the Africa Institute of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and the ‘Sovetskaya Encyclopaedia’ State Scientific Publishing House, with research assistance from several institutes of the U.S.S.R. Academy of Sciences and other educational and scientific institutions.

“Late Antique” Mining Community in the North Kharga Oasis (Egypt)

2021 ◽  
Vol 57 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Salima Ikram ◽  
Nicholas Warner ◽  
Nikolaos Lazaridis ◽  
Leslie Anne Warden ◽  
Rebecca Cook ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Late Antique ◽  
Industrial Activity ◽  
Northern Area ◽  
The North ◽  
Mining Community ◽  
Kharga Oasis ◽  
History Of

The North Kharga Oasis Darb Ain Amur Survey (NKODAAS) has been exploring the extreme northern area and western extension of Kharga Oasis in order to locate and document hitherto undiscovered and unrecorded archaeological sites and material. The archaeological sites identified during the course of the survey are varied, including rock art, routes, mines, quarries, water dumps, wells, shelters, hamlets, and settlements. The site presented here is a Roman/“Late Antique” complex, including a church and several related areas of settlement and industrial activity devoted to alum mining and sandstone quarrying, that played a role in the history of the economy and landscape of Kharga Oasis.

Continuing Writings on Stone

2019 ◽  
pp. 47-64
Author(s):  
Camina Weasel Moccasin
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Spirit World ◽  
Traditional Sense ◽  
Provincial Park

This chapter explores the concept of contemporary rock-art making as a form of repatriation. According to Blackfoot culture the making of rock art is considered a sacred act that involves communication with the spirit world. Current policies help protect existing, tangible rock art, but at the expense of continuing the intangible heritage of communicating with the spirit world. Writing-on-Stone Provincial Park is in the process of creating a new policy which would allow the making of contemporary rock art in a traditional sense.

scholarly journals PARTICIPATION OF UKRAINIAN HISTORIANS OF CZECHOSLOVAKIA IN INTERNATIONAL CONGRESSES AND CONVENTIONS (20S – 30S OF THE 20TH CENTURY): INFORMATION AND STATISTICAL ANALYSIS

2021 ◽  
Vol 1 (32) ◽  
pp. 90-96
Author(s):  
Nataliia Voron
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Analysis ◽  
20Th Century ◽  
Scientific Community ◽  
Cultural Life ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
Scientific Institutions ◽  
History Of ◽  
Scientific Congress ◽  
Rich History

The paper provides an information and statistical analysis of the participation of Ukrainian émigré historians of Czechoslovakia in international congresses and conventions in the 20s and 30s of the 20th century both on the territory of the country of residence and abroad. According to the author’s estimates, Ukrainian scholars and historians from Czechoslovakia attended more than 25 various scientific congresses and conventions during that period. About nine of them were held in Prague. The issues of history and ethnography were heard at 10 conferences. Ukrainian émigré historians attended congresses of Slavic ethnographers and geographers in Prague, Poland (several cities), Belgrade, Sofia, and international congresses of historians in Warsaw and Zurich. The issue of the history of Ukraine was majorly discussed at the First and the Second Ukrainian Scientific Congress. Ukrainian scientific institutions were most often represented by scientists such as Dmytro Doroshenko and Vadym Shcherbakivskyi. Dmytro Antonovych, a professor of the Ukrainian Free University, the permanent chairman of the Ukrainian Historical and Philological Society was quite an active speaker at international forums. Most often, historians gave reports on the history of Ukraine of the sixteenth-eighteenth centuries, ethnography, folklore studies. The environment of the Ukrainian intelligentsia in Prague and its scientific and cultural life contributed to the preservation and development of the Ukrainian national idea, popularization of the research on the history of Ukraine and the history of Ukrainian culture in the European historical space. Scientists in Czechoslovakia were the representatives of the Ukrainian scientific forces in Europe. The émigré historians presented their interesting research on the history of Ukraine, reminding the European scientific community of the existence of the authentic Ukrainian people with their rich history and traditions, the ancestral desire for freedom and independence.

scholarly journals DIAGNÓSTICO DO ESTADO DE CONSERVAÇAO DOS SÍTIOS COM GRAFISMOS RUPESTRES NO PARQUE NACIONAL DO CATIMBAU - PERNAMBUCO

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 139
Author(s):  
Daniela Cisneiros
Keyword(s):  
National Park ◽  
Rock Art ◽  
The State ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Art Conservation ◽  
Cave Paintings ◽  
Physical And Chemical ◽  
Art Techniques

No presente trabalho são apresentados os resultados das pesquisas sobre o estado de conservação dos grafismos rupestres dos sítios arqueológicos do Parque Nacional do Catimbau em Pernambuco. Essa pesquisa foi realizada a partir do levantamento macroscópico dos fatores e agentes de degradação e alteração atuante sobre os painéis rupestres dos 55 sítios do Parque. A partir da compreensão que a conservação de pinturas e gravuras rupestres só pode ser entendida de maneira interdependente, ou seja apenas a partir do conhecimento do objeto (grafismos rupestres - técnicas e propriedades) e do ambiente (suporte e agentes de interação), foram construídos protocolos para identificar a evolução dos agentes que se constituem danosos ao patrimônio rupestre nessa área. Foram considerados nessa primeira parte do projeto, os indicadores de alteração, os aspectos externos do suporte: pátinas, crostas, depósitos superficiais (sais, microorganismos, excrementos, manchas, ninho de insetos); a perda, rupturas ou fissura do suporte (escamação, fratura, desagregação, desplacamento); as intervenções antrópicas (grafite, pichações, incisões, queimadas intencionais). Nesta síntese preliminar das patologias que atingem os painéis rupestres, observou-se que os indicadores de degradação são os de origem físico-químicas oriundos da formação da rocha e estão ligadas à formação do suporte e ao entorno ambiental. Os agentes antrópicos indiretos como desmatamento e caça atuam para o agravamento da situação.DIAGNOSIS OF THE STATE OF CONSERVATION OF SITES WITH RUPESTRIC GRAPHISMS IN THE NATIONAL PARK OF CATIMBAU - PERNAMBUCOABSTRACTThis work presents the results of research on the state of conservation of rock art from the archaeological sites of the National Park of Catimbau in Pernambuco. This research was carried out from the macroscopic survey of the factors and agents of degradation and alteration acting on the rock art of the 55 sites in the Park. Based on the understanding that the conservation of cave paintings and engravings can only be understood in an interdependent manner, that is, only through knowledge of the object (rock art - techniques and properties) and the environment (support and interaction agents), they were built protocols to identify the evolution of agents that are harmful to the rock heritage in this area. In this first part of the project, the indicators of change, the external aspects of the support were considered: patinas, crusts, surface deposits (salts, microorganisms, excrement, stains, insect nests); the loss, ruptures or fissure of the support (scaling, fracture, disintegration, debonding); anthropic interventions (graphite, graffiti, incisions, intentional fires). In this preliminary synthesis of the pathologies that affect the rupestrian panels, it was observed that the degradation indicators are those of physical and chemical origin from the formation of the rock and are linked to the formation of the support and the environmental environment. Indirect anthropic agents such as deforestation and hunting act to worsen the situation.Keywords: Catimbau National Park, Rock art, Conservation. 

Cultuurhistorische landschappen op Bonaire

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 (3) ◽  
pp. 169-176
Author(s):  
AMY VICTORINA
Keyword(s):  
Memory Management ◽  
Nonprofit Organization ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Sustainable Protection

Interview with Claudia Kraan. Cultural-historical landscapes on Bonaire: flexible and sustainable protection of heritage As the least populated of the ‘Benedenwindse Eilanden’, Bonaire still has many special landscapes. There, archaeologist Claudia Kraan is involved in drawing up policy documents in the context of the implementation of the Malta Convention for the Protection of the Archaeological Heritage. Part of this is a nomination file of some cultural-historical landscapes on Bonaire, based on the existing archaeological sites. Claudia is formally employed by the National Archaeological Anthropological Memory Management (NAAM), a nonprofit organization that is committed to the conservation, identification and research of the material and intangible heritage of Curaçao and Bonaire in a Caribbean perspective. In this interview Claudia Kraan gives us an insight in her work and the opportunities and barriers she sees in the protection of heritage of Bonaire.

scholarly journals El paisaje natural del Valle Poblano-Tlaxcalteca

2020 ◽  
pp. 69-83
Author(s):  
Carlos Moreno Pantoja ◽  
Yesenia Hernández García
Keyword(s):  
Legal Framework ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Natural Material ◽  
Academic Experience ◽  
Religious Buildings ◽  
Institutional Planning ◽  
Time Control ◽  
Intangible Heritage ◽  
Official Data

This writing relates the professional and academic experience that was carried out in the field of Cultural, Natural, Material and Intangible Heritage, within the framework of updating the Development Plan of the Puebla- Tlaxcala Metropolitan Area. The part that is presented here is related to Natural Heritage. Although, heritage had already been considered in past plans and programs, on this occasion, the heritage is ordered, typified and categorized, using institutional planning instruments, the legal framework, even, only with official data. The topic adopts the official methodology that, through the demands and the terms of reference, the institutions formalize the contracted areas. Consequently, they ensure that research responds to institutionalized vision and mission. However, the official rigidity, the research group opened ways to approach the research from the four areas proposed by Querol (2000), in the cultural heritage management: knowing, controlling, planning and disseminating. Knowing and disseminating worked with lobbyists, those in charge of culture, tourism, as well as those responsible for religious buildings and archaeological sites. At the same time, control and plan were produced from the collective, sessioning as a seminar and workshop, this resulted in multidisciplinary learning that resulted in an updated interdisciplinary plan.

scholarly journals ANÁLISE PALEOAMBIENTAL DO CONTEXTO FLUVIAL DO VALE DO RIO CARNAÚBA: NAVEGABILIDADE PRETÉRITA ASSOCIADA ÀS IMAGENS DE PIROGAS PRESENTES NO CONTEXTO ARQUEOLÓGICO DA ÁREA ARQUEOLÓGICA DO SERIDÓ, CARNAÚBA DOS DANTAS – RN

2020 ◽  
Vol II (5) ◽  
pp. 83-105
Author(s):  
Gibran Khalil de Espindola Brandão ◽  
Bruno de Azevedo Cavalcanti Tavares
Keyword(s):  
Rock Art ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Climatic Conditions ◽  
River Valley ◽  
Archaeological Sites ◽  
Environmental Reconstruction ◽  
Rainfall Distribution ◽  
The Past ◽  
Drainage Networks ◽  
Gis Environment

This article analyses the archaeological sites with rock art with the presence of representations called here “Pirogas”, looking for an association between these figures and the past fluvial context of Carnaúba river valley (Brazil). The research aims to identify the viability of navigation in the past paleoenvironment of the drainage networks of the Carnaúba river valley. Through the collection and interpretation of primary and secondary data and their manipulation through the use of georeferencing in a GIS environment, it was possible to verify that over different epochs of the Holocene, in climatic conditions of greater humidity and better rainfall distribution, the Carnaúba river possibly had flower conditions and flood regimes more durable than the present, favouring better subsistence conditions and the possibility of its use for navigation purposes. However, the need for further studies on environmental reconstruction of the archaeological area is reaffirmed and new problems related to the interpretation of the region’s rock art records are presented.

scholarly journals ARCHIPELAGO MUSICAL ELEMENTS IN ANANDA SUKARLAN'S WORK AS PART OF BUILDING INDONESIAN IDENTITY

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (26) ◽  
pp. 58-74
Author(s):  
Kartini Ruth Maduma Manalu ◽  
Hendrik Leonard Simanjuntak ◽  
Lono Lastoro Simatupang ◽  
Nyak Ina Raseuki ◽  
Viktor Ganap
Keyword(s):  
Fundamental Aspect ◽  
Compositional Techniques ◽  
History Of ◽  
Vocal Works ◽  
The Rich ◽  
High Level ◽  
Musical Elements ◽  
Rich History

This study aims to examine the contribution of Ananda Sukarlan as a composer who is serious about building an Indonesian identity through the use of various Indonesian musical elements as material in composing piano and vocal works. How composers arrange various musical aspects that can work in a composition is the focus of this research. The study of musicology is used as an approach to dissect various aspects of the musical used, such as; melody, harmony, texture, tonality, scale, rhythm, timbre. Archipelago musical elements are a fundamental aspect in composing works that have 'new values' and 'different tastes' because they have uniqueness or characteristics. The complexity of the compositional techniques used in the preparation of the work shows a high level of creativity in producing vistuosic works. His works have become a repertoire for recitals, competitions, and music concerts for Indonesian and foreign pianists and soloist singers. Studying the works of Ananda Sukarlan indirectly also understands the musical diversity, the beauty of the region and the rich history of Indonesian culture.

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