Technical and Scientific Imaging for Archaeological purpose – A Brazilian case.

Abstract

This paper is about Technical and Scientific Imaging for caving painting (archeological site in Brazil). High quality imaging with color management has been used, in addition to scientific procedures to generate digital images, capable for recording not visible light (ultraviolet and infrared radiation). In addition, the RTI (Reflectance Transformation Imaging) technique was used. Rock Art is a kind of Cultural Heritage, extremely fragile archaeological remains and susceptible to a series of factors (physical, chemical, anthropic and others) that can cause different impacts for their preservation. The Rock Art can suffer an irreversible damage, which can greatly compromise research and relative studies, then, requiring great scientific and technical procedures for imaging.