rock art mobile project
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Presentation on the AHRC funded Rock Art Mobile Project (RAMP) at Newcastle University, UK by Debbie Maxwell & Kate Sharpe.TRANSCRIPT
Rock Art Mobile ProjectDebbie Maxwell [email protected] Sharpe [email protected]
What is rock art? (museum)
What’s it got to with mobile technology? (background)
Why should I care? (context)
Who visits rock art anyway? (workshops)
What did we find?
What’s that got to do with me? (exercise/brief)
What is rock art?
Rock art and mobile technology
Why should I care?• Technological landscape
• Natural landscape
Who visits rock art?
Why visit rock art?
“The cist was
interesting but death is always
interesting.
“The one that was a channel, I didn't see it as a man-made
thing, I saw it as a rock fault, until David said,
‘Well just imagine the
blood running from a goat down there. And
suddenly it came to life.’”
What did we discover?• Findability• Speculation• Sense of place and self
So?