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Italia    Val Pellice - Barma 'd Mondon EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: copper age, grid, painting, row
Institution: Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://www.rupestre.net/orme
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Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy
 
Location
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Country:

Italia

Locality:

Villar Pellice - see original record (ask compiler - institution)

Region:

Piemonte

Area:

Val Pellice

 

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The Val Pellice paintings, the shelter and the stone-wall house remains (photo A. Arcà - Footsteps of Man 1999)
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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

Altitude:

850 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Steep mountain slope, southward exposed, goat pasture, chestnut wood, abandoned agricultural stone wall buildings, abandoned vines, wide panoramic view over the whole lower Pellice valley.

Proximity:

Path, abandoned settlement

Geology:

Surface:

Rough, flat, patina, 90° of inclination

Dimensions:
Length 0.90 m.  Width 0.48 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The painted frame lies on a vertical wall in a shelter 23 m large, 4 m deep, 12 m high, at an height of 3,7 m. The left part is covered by a white calcite concretion. The paintings are composed by 3 grids with vertical columns surrounded by anthropomorphic figures, most of them aligned in rows hands in hands. The grid-motif with vertical columns, which recalls still today the shape of the ploughed fields in the underlying bottom of the valley, is peculiar of this painting. The upside-down poli-anthropomorphic figure is quite similar to the one of the Cavour paintings.

Figures:
total number 17
3 grids, 11 anthropomorphic figures in 2 rows, 1 arrow-like figure, 2 anthropomorphic figure upside down

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
Many elements of this painting are very similar to the Provence paintings (Abri des Essartènes) and to the Iberian schematic art. Comparisons with the topographic grids of Valcamonica (Vite) and with the superimpositions of Les Oullas (Ubaye - F) make probable a late Neolithic - first Copper Age chronological frame (3400-2700 BC).

Notes:

Discovered in 1992 by R. Rivoiro, officially signalled to the Archaeological Superintendence of Piedmont in 1999. Inside the shelter there are the remains of a stone-wall buildings, originally utilised as hay-loft.
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Italia EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)General (country)
Specific Val Pellice -  <i>Barma 'd Mondon</i> bibliography, by Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)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

 

 
Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

A part of the painted sheltered wall collapsed in 1995. The painting is naturally protected against rain and snow, but concretions are gradually covering the left part.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

Preliminary recording (pictures and photographic tracing), digital enhancing treatment of pictures (PhotoShop). Direct dating (AMS) needed.

 

By          

Compiler:

Andrea Arcà

Institution:

Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://www.rupestre.net/orme
 
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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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