Rock Art Project in eastern Tigray (Ethiopia): Process, Temporality and Interpretation

This project is about Holocene rock art in eastern Tigray, Ethiopia. Thematically, it addresses art processing and chrono-cultural questions related to the rock arts.  

It covers the districts: Subha Saesi, Ganta Afeshum, Tseada Emba, Irob, Gulo Mekada, Hawzien, and Tsira Womberta districts. 

In terms of methods, it conducts digital and paper recordings of the rock art sites and their contexts. Pigment identification and chronometric dating of samples from the corpus follows.  

In the last field mission alone, a total of 57 sites were documented: 53 paintings and 4 engravings. The novelty of the findings could be rated as: newly discovered, newly documented [as they had been previously reported], and re-documented [as they had been partly documented].