Svenskt HällristningsForskningsArkiv –

Swedish Archive for Rock Art Research

a national project for constructing and establishing of a database and an archive

for documentation and research of rock carvings at Göteborg university financed by RiksBankens Jubileumsfond and Riksantikvarieämbetet/The central board of Antiquity.

The project at present resides at Tanums HällristningsMuseum.

Ulf Bertilsson,Ph.D., Project Manager, Göteborgs universitet / www.shfa.se

see the article: Adoranten 2007

T-12 – A.E. Holmberg 1848	T-12 – L. Baltzer 1881
T-12 – C.G. Brunius 1868	T-12 – Tanums HällristningsMuseum 1992

The primary purpose of the reproduction and publication of rock carvings has always been to make this extensive and geographically scattered material accessible to research of different kinds.

T-184 – Frottager ihopsatt	T-184 – Imålad
T-184 – Detalj	T-184 – Detalj

Rockart in danger sounds dramatic. Nevertheless it is not an overstatement. During the last hundred years different kinds of destructions has never been so rapid and extensive.

It is urgent to record as much as possible, because in the next 50-100 years a large part of the cultural heritage all over the world will have disappeared.

Through the effect of various natural phenomena, such as freezing and thawing which fragment the surfaces, exposure to sun and wind and the effect of lichens and moss. And through changes of the environment created by man, the so-called environmental pollution. Essential factors accelerating the weathering are acid rain, humic acid created in newly planted scientifically managed forests, and environmentally caused changes of the vegetation on the surface of the rocks.

This rock in The World Heritage Area in Tanum was documented at the workshop 2008.

See: Working Seminar