Multidisciplinary research team focused on investigation, recording, digitizing and dissemination of rock art.
More about us4D Arte Rupestre has born as a multidisciplinary research team at the beginning of 2013, headed by the archaeologist Juan F. Ruiz. This team, ever growing since then, is made of more than fifteen researchers and professionals of several universities and research institutes: archaeologists, restorers, digital image professionals, engineers, geologists, chemists, biologists, etc. Everyone of us is actively involved in the research and application of cutting-edge technologies and new methodologies to study prehistoric rock art. This comprehensive approach has been carried out up to now in twenty two sites distributed over the eastern half of the Iberian Peninsula. Our aims are to contribute to the hard task of rock art preservation, improving of the recording techniques, and increasing public awareness and dissemination of the graphic forms of communication of Prehistory.
Recording of rock art sites by means of high-resolution photography, macrophotography, microphotography, infrared, ultraviolet, thermal image, etc…
Laboratory or non-invasive characterization of pigments, bedrocks, crusts, biological communities, by Raman spectroscopy, pXRF, etc…
By close range photogrammetry techniques, diachronic analyses, rock art sites virtualization, etc…
Rock art sites studies, exhibitions, publishing, training for professionals, etc…
Químico, termografía
Ingeniero, termografía
Chemist
Photographer, computer developer
Photographer
We also work with: Irantzu Martínez, Chemist; Juan Manuel Madariaga, Chemist; Anastasia Giakoumaki, Chemist; Josep Gisbert, Biologist, mycologist, specialist in cultural heritage y Antonio Gómez, Biologist, Lichens Specialist in cultural heritage
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