Original scientific paper

Rock Art in an Abri on Povilac Beach near Selce - Prehistoric Pictograph or Recent Forgery?

Darko Komšo orcid.org/0000-0001-9772-7481 ; Archaeological Museum of Istria Carrarina 3, 52100 Pula
Ivor Karavanić orcid.org/0000-0003-1452-8394 ; Department of Anthropology University of Wyoming ikaravan@ffzg.hr
Jacqueline Balen orcid.org/0000-0001-7770-184X ; Archaeological Museum in Zagreb Trg Nikole Šubića Zrinskog 19, Zagreb

Abstract

This paper discusses pictographs found in an abri near Selce. There
are no significant similarities between the Povilac pictographs
and those at other sites. They are most likely a recent work,
created at most a few decades ago. Although the pictographs have
been entirely destroyed by weathering effects, photographs made
of them, a selection of which are presented here, are a faithful
witness to, and documentation of, this site.

Keywords

Rock art; pictographs; Povilac; Croatia; original; forgery

Hrčak ID:

182629

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/182629

Publication date:

12.11.2016.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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