Altar Of Stone

I am very lucky to be sent by a project of the construction for the greatest university from China to go CENTRO OF CAMUNO DI STUDI PREISTORIRCI(卡莫诺史前研究中心) and follow Prof.ANATI EMMANUEL,who is ex-president of the International Committee on Rock Art(CAR) of UNESCO(United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization),studying rock art in Italy in 2007.During that time, all kinds of events conceming rock art made me be excited,and which urged me to write it to be introduced to my country.I hope these experiences from Italy could help Chinese scholars of rock art to study in their field.Author has totally introduced their achievement in the thesis; meanwhile,a couple of different ideas have been brought by me.For example,could we treat rock art as language? As the rock art setting,I have got a new idea named "rock art field".Thanks to the capacity of page,time and information limited,Of course,these new concepts need to be proved later.Many experiences from field works told us:some easy steps always lead us into a trap and make mistakes.Author has ever copied the engraving with some experts from the different institute of the whole Italy in Valcamonica above one month,and some thoughts come into being. Based on the experiences from the field work and theories from books, some methods were list in my thesis,including the setting of rock art how can I deal with,how can I clean the surface of rock and trace engravings, which is very effective and realistic ways to scholars.However,we should be aware of these theories and ways is limited.If we want to use it, should be based on the fact from the local field.When Author have found some portrayals of rock art setting continues to grow about 50 years, some advices of rock art setting were given.Some key problems disturbing scholar is dating.The special characters of rock art,many persons thought it is 'the remains' of archeology,which make archaeologists not be given advice of it and almost nobody specially study rock art.Scholars from Camuno have developed the idea of 'stratigraphy' under Anati's leadship,sometimes named 'Superimposition'.One rock surface usually have been found rock art from different time,some figures always covered the other ones,parts or the wholes.Some reasons are that these rock Arts have no function,or make use of ways of 'shaman' make it not play a role any more. Sometimes,a stone is generally acknowledged as 'magic' and artists like to engraving on it,we will find some figures always are covered by the others.Generally,covered works is earlier,the clearest works should be happened later.Author has introduced the dating of rock art on based of two different series of scholars from Italy in order to take some advices for Chinese scholars.Theories studying are almost beginning from discovering the rock art in Valcomunican,which is the greatest contribution,is restriction the history of Valcomuni.These achievement make rock art study to be meaning and provided some new ways to us,which tell us rock art research is not hunt for novelty and take an adventure,but 'touch' the life of ancestor.Scholars from CCSP(Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici) have taken part in the rock art of the other areas of the world and developed the idea of philosophy on the basis of experiences of Valcamonica and the exploration from Asia,America,African and other else.These ways of rock art research should be pay attention by Chinese scholars and make them study and interpret rock art in a world vision.Author is not always proud of the experience of Valcamonica;some theories mend it and give some new views for rock art.Rock art syntax of Anati is an important part of theory,which can be divided into three ways of ideograms,psychograms and pictogram.Maybe rock art is origin of characters or "as a character,we Should be noticed the engravings is not characters after all.I thought rock art as symbols is similar to character in part,but rock art is not inscriptions,author regards rock art as a language system(idea).Some so-called perpetual projects are not always appearing in all of the rock art,which usually show us the different meaning on basis of different kinds of elements.These phenomena told us the author of rock art had been possessed consciousness of language;ideograms, psychograms and pictogram are three ways of communication at that time. The system of rock art as media we can name this "the idea of rock art".Another new idea is "rock art field".Scholars from Italy also think rock art of setting is very important to interpret meaning of it.I have developed an idea of "rock art field" based on the setting of rock art, FENGSHUI theory of China(a theory of traditional environments) and 'field' concepts from physics and the other science.Of course,"Language system of rock art" and "rock art field" need still research later.After all,the aim of the thesis I want to provide a notice and reference for Chinese scholars.I am very happy if some ways of developing rock art from Italy can be understood by researchers.