CVARN - Rock art virtual corpus of north-western Portugal. A multimedia tool to investigate and describe post-palaeolithic rock art

The purpose of this paper is the dissemination of the Rock Art Virtual Corpus of the Northwest of Portugal (CVARN), a database dedicated to the theme of Post- Palaeolithic rock art in the Northwest of Portugal, which has been available online since the end of September 2014. This software tool is being built and developed under the ENARDAS project, a scientific project financed by the Thematic Factors of Competitiveness Operational Programme and by the European Regional Development Fund, and has been on-going since 2011, but is now open to the entire scientific community. Apart from being a first compilation of different “styles” of rock arts that occur between the western façade of Iberia, between the basins of the Minho and Vouga rivers, it will have both social and scientific functions. In social terms, the results obtained may contribute to regional development, especially regarding development from the perspective of tourism. In scientific terms, it will allow us to promote scientific research in this field of knowledge and to enable scientifically validated arguments for the integration of rock art sites into tourism evaluation projects.
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