Rock Art Mobile ProjectDebbie Maxwell deborah.maxwell@ncl.ac.ukKate Sharpe kate.sharpe@ncl.ac.uk

What is rock art? (museum)

What’s it got to with mobile technology? (background)

Why should I care? (context)

Who visits rock art anyway? (workshops)

What did we find?

What’s that got to do with me? (exercise/brief)

What is rock art?

Rock art and mobile technology

Why should I care?• Technological landscape

• Natural landscape

Who visits rock art?

Why visit rock art?

“The cist was

interesting but death is always

interesting.

“The one that was a channel, I didn't see it as a man-made

thing, I saw it as a rock fault, until David said,

‘Well just imagine the

blood running from a goat down there. And

suddenly it came to life.’”

What did we discover?• Findability• Speculation• Sense of place and self

So?