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Country: |
Italia |
Locality: |
Cemmo, Pian delle Greppe |
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Region: |
Lombardia |
Area: |
Valcamonica |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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400 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Boulder is found in the plain called Pian delle Greppe at Cemmo, fraction of Capo di Ponte (BS). East oriented. The land was used for grapes, now on for pastures. |
Proximity: |
Not far from the road that connects Cemmo to Capo di Ponte, in front of the local museum and the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici. |
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Geology: |
Slide boulders, sandstone. |
Surface: |
vertical, smoothed, patinated. |
Dimensions:
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Length 2.60 m.
Width 3.10 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
Capo di Ponte Municipality (BS-I), in the Pian delle Greppe site. The engravings are executed on a boulder, felt from the top of the mountain in prehistoric times, by hammering. Almost all the engravings are concentrated on the frontal surface in the middle upper part of the surface. There are figures also in the left side of the boulder.
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Figures: |
total number 118
Sun, axes, daggers of Remedello type, animals, ploughing scene
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
Copper Age (style III A 1-2; 2900/2800-2200 BC). The style IIIA1 (as defined by DE MARINIS) is dated by comparison between the engraved figures and the real objects (Copper Age daggers) found at the burial site of Remedello (BS). It is so called "remedellian". The next style (IIIA2) pertains to a bell-beaker phase (2400-2200 BC).
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Notes: |
The boulder was first discovered by G. Laeng in 1902, that then presented the discoveries to the Commitee of the National Monuments in 1909, and then published it in 1914. During the end of the '20 P. Graziosi and G. Marro came to Cemmo to study the boulder. More info about Valcamonica and Alpine Rock Art at http://rupestre.net/alps. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
There are problem of esfoliations with cracks. There are traces of vandalism of German soldiers during the last war: they shot the boulder with a bullet gun. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The boulder has been traced and restored few times. It is visited by many students during the year. It is inserted in the national Park of rock engravings. |
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By |
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Record n. 450 / 807 |
No commercial use is allowed. Specific © is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution |
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EuroPreArt, European Prehistoric Art, is a web-based archaeological project funded by the European Union which aims to establish a lasting data-base of European prehistoric art documentation, to launch the base of an European institutional network and to contribute to the awareness of the diversity and richness of European Prehistoric Art.
It is proposed by: Instituto Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal),
CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe),
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España),
Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón (España),
Université de Liège (Belgique),
Gotland University College (Sverige),
University College Dublin (Eire),
Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Italia),
Study Centre and Museum of Prehistoric Art of
Pinerolo (Italia),
The European Centre for Prehistoric Research in the Alto Ribatejo (Portugal),
ArqueoJovem - a youth NGO (Portugal).
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