Minerals, as raw structural materials or pigments, play a fundamental role in archaeometry,
for the understanding of nature, structure and status of an artefact or object of interest for …

Residue analysis applied to stone tools is a useful aid for better understanding their past
function and, by extension, reconstructing early human behaviour. However, if the nature of …

Remains of pictorial decorations in a series of six representative megalithic monuments of
Brittany (France) and two French stelae have been studied by micro‐Raman spectroscopy …

Micro-Raman spectroscopic technique allowed the characterization of organic and inorganic
pigments of different colours sampled from a rock-art shelter named Abrigo del Aguila …

Post-glacial schematic rock paintings extend across the Iberian Peninsula to the Italian
Piedmont. The Rocher du Château is one of the few Alpine sites with such painted …

The background of this paper is the biographical relationship between the Menga dolmen
and La Peña de los Enamorados mountain (a conspicuous and highly-recognisable natural …

In this work, some micro-samples belonging to the open-air rock art site of Cueva de la Vieja
(Alpera, Albacete, Spain) were analysed. These samples were collected after and before a …

Could not be possible that rock paintings with similar hues and morphologies were the result
of different paint preparations inside a cave but distanced in time? Is there any …

O trabalho que aqui se apresenta, revê de forma sistemática e atualizada o Complexo
Rupestre do Vale do Tejo (CARVT), abarcando uma área de 120km de comprimento. Conta …

A series of rock art pictographs in the form of hand stencils discovered in two sites of the
Yabrai Mountain, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region (China) has been studied by micro …