Rock Art Research

Archaeological research is a complex and not always transparent process, loosely connected to heuristic approaches. To gain control over the intellectual process that guides investigation, it is imperative to render explicit the logical and epistemological steps accomplished, in order to recognise the results of such a process as scientific knowledge. As final results of those procedures, researchers gave and applied names to styles, phases, industries, societies etc. If other specialists cannot access the internal construction methodology of those research processes, they can only perceive leaps between the primary phenomena, and the name provided at their closure. These investigations look like performed magic acts linked to the power of assigning a name. The names given identify only ‘egofacts’: unique, faultless and personal creations, by-products of losing scientific communication codes.