The International Association of Paths of Prehistoric Rock Art and Calasparra will begin organizing the event, which is scheduled for next fall
They have already started organizing the celebration of the International Symposium: Management of European Enclaves of Rock Art on the UNESCO World Heritage List, scheduled for next fall, although dates have yet to be specified.
The international association Caminos del Arte Rupestre Prehístórico (Carp), the organization that organizes the congress, and the municipality of Calasparra, the host municipality together with Cieza and Yecla, have sent the first circular to 16 institutions in Europe and Africa and 11 regional governments to invite them to participate in this appointment with parietal art distinguished by Unesco. A congress that will take place over four days, during which there will be 5 theoretical sessions, each with a presentation, and between 5 and 6 selected announcements. In addition, it is planned to hold a round table open to the public, in which renowned promoters of cultural heritage will participate,” they explain from Carp.
During the seminar, participants – approximately 50 delegates from the 13 invited rock art sites and between 60 and 80 rock art management experts and professionals – will be able to see first hand some of the most outstanding rock art archaeological sites in the region, as they will make technical visits to the enclaves of Abrigos del Pozo (Calasparra), Cueva de La Serreta and Abrigos de Los Grajos (Cieza), Cantos de la Visera del Monte Arabí (Yecla) and Abrigos de Buenaire (Jumilla). Likewise, those present will have the opportunity to participate in an excursion to the Rock Art Center of the Region of Murcia, in Casa Cristo, and to the refuges of Cañaíca del Calar and Fuente del Sabuco, in Calar de la Santa, all located in the municipality of Moratalla.
Among the organizations that will be represented at this symposium are the eleven UNESCO World Heritage rock art sites, ranging from the beginnings of the Upper Paleolithic to historic times, and two other invited sites, from Germany and Algeria.
The rock art sites in Europe listed as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, their management (composition, production methodology and evaluation), the risks and emergencies faced by these artistic manifestations in order to maintain their sustainability; the presentation models for the public and the accessibility of the depots; and, finally, the dissemination of petroglyphs through new technologies and dissemination channels will be the topics of the international seminar.
The appointment with the largest and oldest cultural heritage of humanity in the region opens, after the reception in the new Museum of the Villa, and closes in Calasparra and will also take place, in a touring way, in Cieza and Yecla.
From the Association of Trails of Prehistoric Rock Art, they explain that the meeting, “the most important ever held in Spain, and even in Europe, on the technical management of the European rock art World Heritage”, also aims to present a large list of prestigious professional archaeologists, conservators and restorers, as well as technical managers and political leaders of the cave sites, with the aim of generating synergies and working on transnational management plans and joint strategies to combat the major risks and threats to this vast heritage of humanity. For this reason “we have already sent invitations to the Ministry of Culture and Sports, Unesco, the International Council of Monuments and Sites (Icomos), the International Federation of Rock Art Organizations (Ifrao), the Council of Europe and the 11 regional governments responsible are for these deposits,” they confirm.
The representatives and administrators of the UNESCO World Heritage Sites of Petroglyphs who will attend the international symposium are at the forefront of some of the most incredible archaeological sites from around the world, spanning the period from 40,000 years ago to our historic times. For example, those responsible for the petroglyphs of the Norwegian deposit of Alta will be present; of the petroglyphs of Tanum (Sweden); of the 147 archaeological sites and 25 caves decorated with Paleolithic petroglyphs in the Vézère Valley and Chauvet-Pont d’Arc Cave, both sites in France; the impressive collection of petroglyphs in Val Camonica (Italy); of the Paleolithic masterpiece of Altamira and the 17 ornate caves in northern Spain, spanning Asturias, Cantabria and the Basque Country; of the rock art of the Mediterranean arc of the Iberian Peninsula, 758 sites spread over 1,000 kilometers of the coastal autonomies of Andalusia, Aragon, Castilla-La Mancha, Catalonia, the region of Murcia and the Valencian Community; of the engravings and petroglyphs of the Côa Valley (Portugal) and Siega Verde (Salamanca), which, with about 5,000 images, constitute the most important collection of open-air Paleolithic petroglyphs in the Iberian Peninsula; the cultural landscape of Risco Caído and the Sacred Mountains of Gran Canaria; of the parietal manifestations of the troglodyte group of Los Sassi and the cave churches of Matera (Italy); and of the more than 6,000 petroglyphs of the Cultural Landscape of Gobustan (Azerbaijan). In addition, custodians of the Stone Age caves in the Swabian Alb (Germany), home to impressive Paleolithic ivory animal carvings and more than 15,000 engravings and paintings, from the Paleolithic to the Middle Ages, will also be in attendance as special guests. from Tassili N’Ajjer, in the Algerian Sahara.
Source: La Verdad
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