TY - JOUR AU - Høgestøl, Mari AU - Prøsch-Danielsen, Lisbeth AU - Walderhaug, Olav PY - 2019/01/31 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Bergkunst på Midt- og Sør-Jæren samt i Dalaneregionen, Rogaland. Motiver, historikk, naturmiljø og tilstand. JF - AmS-Varia JA - AmS-Varia VL - IS - 59 SE - Articles DO - 10.31265/ams-varia.v0i59.198 UR - https://journals.uis.no/index.php/AmS-Varia/article/view/198 SP - 1-83 AB - <p>In Rogaland County, southwestern Norway, one of the country’s largest collections of rock art can be&nbsp;found: ca. 110 sites with figures and cup marks, 38 grave monuments with decorated slabs or stones&nbsp;with cup marks (altogether 67 slabs) and 37 stray finds of decorated slabs or stones with cup marks.&nbsp;In 1996, the Museum of Archaeology, University of Stavanger established an interdisciplinary group working primarily on the documentation and preservation of rock art. This group was part of the&nbsp;National Rock Art Project, a program run by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. The&nbsp;project lasted until 2005, after which the Directorate granted supplemental funds for continuing the&nbsp;work. Two previous papers have been published concerning rock art in Rogaland (AmS-Rapport 9 and&nbsp;AmS-Rapport 19). <br>In this publication, we will present 15 sites with figures and cup marks, 20 with cup marks only&nbsp;and 61 decorated slabs and stones with cup marks recovered from either grave monuments or as&nbsp;stray finds. Ships are the most common motive, but the range of motives also includes simple discs,&nbsp;wheel crosses and, more rarely, human figures, horses and axes. As far as possible, these sites are put&nbsp;into an environmental context in terms of vegetation history, sea-level fluctuations and geological&nbsp;conditions. Furthermore, the publication contains an historical outline of earlier investigations and&nbsp;documentation as well as descriptions and the present status from the rock art sites. Damage and&nbsp;weathering are also described. Finally, we present interpretations of the symbolism and cultural&nbsp;background of the rock art.</p> ER -