Rock- art of the northern Dachsteingebirge

In the last centuries some ten thousand examples of rock art have been found in the Alps. They are most valuable documents of the intellectual life of former, mostly scriptless periods. In comparison to a lot of well described places in the Western Alps there exists nearly no comprehensive documentation about the Eastern Alps. The total project named "Research and documentation of the rock art of Upper-Austrian Salzkammergut" was started in 1992 with the "Kienbachklamm". So now there exists a detailled documentation of this most important place of discovery, the results were published in the "Schriftenreihe des O.Ö. Landesmuseums" and introduced to the public in an exhibition of the "O.Ö. Landesmuseum". In 1995 the rock art of the whole Wolfgangtal has been documented as the second part of this project, the results being published in 1997 in the "Jahrbuch des O.Ö. Musealvereines". As a third part of the project the documentation of the rock art of "Northern Dachsteingebirge" is being started. In this region there has been found a lot of rock art during the last years, none of these places has yet been documented, respectively published.