News & Events
Field Work Week
- Venue: Northumberland
- Start: Wed, 22 May 2013 08:30:00 BST
- End: Thu, 23 May 2013 18:00:00 BST
We completed our first data collection exercise at the end of May, managing to avoid the worst of the weather! The team included Professor David Graham, Dr Aron Mazel, Dr Myra Giesen, Dr Beate Christgen and Peter Lewis from Newcastle University, Dr Patricia Warke from Queen’s University Belfast and Dr Jennifer Roberts from the University of Kansas.
The team visited several rock art sites in Northumberland in order to gather scientific data on the contributing factors to rock art decay, such as mineralogical data. These data will be analysed at Queen’s University Belfast and, from the results, a shortlist of “risk factors” for rock art will be further refined. The first draft of a “tool kit,” which will enable individuals to assess the condition of rock art, also was piloted with the intention to test the ease of collecting this information for a non-expert in the field.
The next fieldwork will conducted in Scotland in July, with the aim of expanding and improving our scientific understanding of rock art erosion.