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On Saturday June 5 sessions were conducted in the Monte Arabi and the Municipal House of Culture of Yecla.
Yecla will host a conference of the First Seminar Graphics Rock Art Documentation, which was organized by the Directorate General of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, will take place on 4 and 5 June in the archaeological museum and Yecla Murcia, respectively .
The meeting will bring together some fifty experts to address the immediate future application of new technologies in this field.
The Director of Fine Arts and Cultural Heritage, Enrique Ujaldón, presented the activity together with the coordinator of the seminar, Miguel San Nicolas, and the Councillor of Culture of the City of Yecla, Concha Palao.
Ujaldón said that "the seminary has had a great drawing power because it has not done anything like it in Europe" and that "there is an academic seminar to use."
One of the main objectives of the meeting of experts will get a graphical documentation protocol rock art, according to the needs of the relevant authorities.
According to the CEO during these two days will meet in the Region of Murcia "renowned scholars in the world of rock art, come from different Spanish and foreign universities, as well as" representatives of the various administrations, both national as the regional, they have in their hands the management of rock art in Spain and other countries "to work on the possibilities of implementing new digital imaging technologies.
These experts include the presence of responsible Rock Art World Heritage Centre of UNESCO, Nuria Sanz, who will inaugurate the seminar on day 4 at 9 am.
Also attended by representatives of 10 Spanish universities of Durham and members of the National Museum of Natural Sciences, the Higher Council for Scientific Research, Instituto Andaluz del Patrimonio Histórico, Instituto Cultural Heritage of Spain, the Centro de Estudios de Prehistoria and Rock Art of the Region of Murcia and the International Institute for Prehistoric Research Cantabria, among others.
The event will attend, also members of different companies in charge of new technologies applied to rock art, which will present the latest developments in this field.
Emphasizes in this regard the incorporation of Marble Technology Center of the Region of Murcia, under the Ministry of Universities and Research Company, which has advanced technology that can be applied to the paintings as the archaeological excavations.
The center, which is responsible for scanning the site of San Esteban, has, in the words of the coordinator of the seminar with a technology "spectacular", which "allows us to see what's under the ground without digging."
Molina said that "whereas before it could take a year and a half to make plans for a cave, you can now do in one hour."
Moreover, the importance of this technology, as explained Ujaldón, lies not only in the possibilities open to scientific study and documentation of rock art shelters, but the knowledge that enables them, in many cases located in places almost inaccessible by the public.
The first day of the seminar will enable a room at the Archaeological Museum of Murcia where participants will learn in three dimensions some of the coats most important rock art.
On Saturday 5 June, will be held an internship at the Reception Centre of Mount Arabia, Yecla, from three-dimensional laser scanning performed in Songs of the visor from the Polytechnic University of Valencia and Technology Center Marble and practice of digital image processing of rock art and video and aerial photography.
Later the scientific sessions at the Municipal House of Culture in our city.
The seminar will be completed on Sunday June 6 visits to the Regional Centre of Rock Art 'Casa Cristo' by Moratalla, the coats of Cieza Palaeolithic art, the cave-pit of the Serreta in Cieza and Well in Calasparra.
The whole Mediterranean Basin rock art in the Iberian Peninsula was declared a World Heritage Site by UNESCO in 1998.
In this regard, the Region of Murcia has more than a hundred coats of rock art.
Source: Ayuntamiento de Yecla
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