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Name      
Italia    Val Germanasca - Rocio 'd la Fantino EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Keywords: painting, grid, reticulate
Institution: Centro Studi e Museo d'arte Preistorica di Pinerolo - Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://www.cesmap.it/
Record
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by
 Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy
 
Location
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Country:

 Italia

Locality:

 Ponte Raut

Region:

 Piemonte

Area:

 Val Germanasca

 

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The Rocio 'd la Fantino paintings, the general environment (photo P. M. De Agostini, GRCM 1975)
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Copyright. No commercial use of EuroPreArt content is allowed. Specific © for pictures and drawings is mentioned in the captions or owned by each Author or Institution.
Disclaim. The EuroPreArt project fully endorses the most recent documentation policies. It must be outlined the absolute forbidding of any disruptive method and the necessity of a total respect for archaeological sites. It is also to be noticed that no substances shall be applied to rock art for recording purposes. Some pictures of the EuroPreArt records are related to past recording techniques and may not fully match these policies. They are an historical documentation. Please refer to local archaeological official authorities for any recording purpose. Please take a look also over EuroPreArt guidelines.
 
Environment & Surface

Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Rocky slope, abandoned stone terracements and vines, pine trees and birches

Proximity:

 River (some meters below)

Geology:

Surface:
90° of inclination, waved, smooth

 

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Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The paintings are white-beige, probably executed with a sort of spatula. They start at an height of 2-2,5 m, while some part parts have been executed at an height of 4 m. The crossed rectangles are also defined as shield-like figures.

Figures:
total number 6
4 crossed rectangles or circles, 1 reticulated rectangular grid, 1 reticulated rounded grid, stains

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
The reticulated grids are very similar to the ones of the Mt. Bego area, particularly in the Valle delle Meraviglie, where they are dated to the Copper Age - ancient Bronze Age

Notes:
The grids can be interpreted as topographic figures
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Italia EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Centro Studi e Museo d'arte Preistorica di Pinerolo - <a href=http://rupestre.net/orme>Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)</a>General (country)
Specific Val Germanasca - <i>Rocio 'd la Fantino</i> bibliography, by Centro Studi e Museo d'arte Preistorica di Pinerolo - <a href=http://rupestre.net/orme>Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)</a>Specific (site)
Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic worldwide Database (external link). Compiled by Leigh Marymor. Copyright (C) 2001-2002 by the Library, University of California, Berkeley Bibliographic
Rock Art
Database

 

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Conservation        

Status:

 Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:
The painting has been damaged during the last world war by a shoot of a German tank. The site is poorly attended. There is the risk of detachment of painted parts.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:
The panel has been traced (digital vectorial rendition) and photographed.

 
By          

Compiler:

 Andrea Arcà - Dario Seglie

Institution:

 Centro Studi e Museo d'arte Preistorica di Pinerolo - Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://www.cesmap.it/
 
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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).
Instituto Politécnico de Tomar - Portugal CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage, Ravello - Italy CSIC - Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Madrid - Spain Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy Asociación Cultural Colectivo Barbaón, Extremadura -Spain Liège University - Belgium Gotland University - Sweden University College Dublin - Ireland CeSMAP - Centro Studi e Museo d'Arte Preistorica. Pinerolo, Italy Arqueo Jovem
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