International Federation
of Rock Art Organizations
IFRAO
is the federation of national and regional
Organizations promoting the study of
palaeoart and cognitive archaeology
(http://www.cesmap.it/ifrao/ifrao.html)
The
IFRAO was formed in Darwin, Australia on 3 September 1988, during the first major international academic
conference dedicated entirely to the study of prehistoric rock art. Nine rock
art organizations formed this international federation of independent national
or regional bodies. At the founding meeting it was decided that IFRAO should be
a common forum and initiator of policies, projecting or representing the common
interests of member organizations without interfering in their autonomy. It
would operate as a democratic advisory body in which each member organization
would hold one vote, exercised by an official representative. International
meetings would be held by nominating suitable rock art conferences as official
IFRAO congresses at regular intervals.
Over
the subsequent twelve years, the number of affiliate members quadrupled to
almost 40, and the current 43 members of IFRAO cover most of the world. The
combined memberships of these organizations include about 7,000 rock art
specialists, which is practically all such specialists in the world.
Until
the late 1980s, individual rock art researchers as well as rock art
organisations around the world operated largely without being aware of the work
conducted in other parts of the world — sometimes even in their own country or
region of activity. As a result, the discipline experienced a great diversity
of research approaches and terminology, reflected in a multitude of
idiosyncratic constructs, sequences, chronologies, names and definitions.
Therefore one of IFRAO’s initial principal concerns was the standardization of those aspects of the discipline
that are essential for effective communication and collaboration: methodology, terminology, ethics, and the technical standards used in analysis
and recording. These subjects were addressed through extensive consultation of
specialists and, where appropriate, the deliberations of appointed
subcommittees.
Objectives
The IFRAO members produce about twenty specialist
periodicals, whose flagship is Rock Art Research, the
official organ of the federation. IFRAO has been particularly effective in the
area of rock art protection and preservation, achieving sometimes spectacular
successes, such as the electoral defeat of recalcitrant governments in 1995 and
2002. The federation has become the principal international body pursuing the
conservation of prehistoric rock art effectively. Another of its greatest
achievements to date has been its successful campaign of empowering traditional
indigenous societies to secure the return of rock art sites into their care and
possession.
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EVENTS PAGE
IFRAO Congress Ripon 1999
IFRAO Congress Alice Springs-Australia2000
SIARB
Symposium Tarija-Bolivia, 2000
COURSE ON EUROPEAN PREHISTORIC ART
Research results
News 95 proceedings
The Alqueva dam will
destroy Rock Art in Portougal
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The IFRAO-Brepols series
The pre-Historic rock art of the world has
been studied for centuries, but until very recently much of this endeavour has
yielded little more than subjective contemporary re-interpretations of ancient
symbolic systems. In recent years a specific research discipline has begun to
emerge in this field, intended to examine the development of human cognition.
The International Federation of Rock Art Organisations (IFRAO) is the main
force behind the campaign of rendering rock art studies more rigorous,
transforming the topic into a scientific pursuit. With the beginning of the
21st century Brepols, a major scholarly publishing house in Belgium, joined
IFRAO in an effort to establish an imprint satisfying the aims of both these
partners: to publish the world’s best academic work in the field of rock art
research. The IFRAO-Brepols imprint is intended to set the standard for the
international discipline in the new century. An editorial committee comprising
some of the world’s foremost scholars in the field, representing all
continents, safeguards the scientific calibre of the volumes published in this
series. It is endeavoured to assemble with this collection a library of the
most authoritative work available on pre-historic art.
Volume 2 Bednarik, Consens, Muzzolini, Sher, Seglie, Simões de Abreu GLOSSARY OF ROCK ART RESEARCH: a multilingual dictionary
Volume 3 Robert G. Bednarik ROCK ART AND
EPISTEMOLOGY: courting sophistication
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