Publications
Academic outputs of the mission in the HAL open archive.
All academic outputs relating to the mission’s activities are available in the MAFIL’s HAL collection(select English on top right of the page).
As of early 2026, the collection comprises over 140 records: 70 notices (reference only) and 71 documents available for free download in PDD format (select ‘fulltext’ in document types on the left of the page).
The collection will be updated regularly even after the website is no longer active (2016-2026).
Digital ressources on rock art
These open-access digital resources have been produced in accordance with current FAIR principles.
They consist of:
– an illustrated thesaurus for Himalayan rock art, published on the Opentheso thesaurus manager.
– a poster outlining the requirements for a specific thesaurus: ‘Introducing a Standardised and Adaptable Method for Rock Art Recording’.
-a dataset (over 25,000 images) published online on the Nakala data repository. The data can be viewed via a dedicated website. Each collection and each image is accompanied by detailed metadata. Each image has a citation and a DOI and can therefore be freely reused.
– Himalayan Rock Art Database: a database, available online to the public in 2026, providing access to multi-scale documentation of several hundred open-air rock art sites, mainly in India (Ladakh and Himachal Pradesh) but also in Pakistan and Afghanistan. The database provides access to three types of documentation (sites that have been systematically documented, surveyed or reported only) and enables detailed searches of the content of nearly 100 sites, 5,000 rocks, over 17,000 motifs and 1,500 scenes.
Facebook page
A Facebook page (90 followers) in the mission’s name was active from October 2016 to January 2019.
It provides exclusive photographs and information about the activities of the mission out during that period.
