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Locality: |
Villar Pellice - see original record (ask compiler - institution) |
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Region: |
Piemonte |
Area: |
Val Pellice |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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850 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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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 |
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Geology: |
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Surface: |
Rough, flat, patina, 90° of inclination |
Dimensions:
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Length 0.90 m.
Width 0.48 m.
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Art |
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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.
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Figures: |
total number 17
3 grids, 11 anthropomorphic figures in 2 rows, 1 arrow-like figure, 2 anthropomorphic figure upside down
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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).
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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. |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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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. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
Preliminary recording (pictures and photographic tracing), digital enhancing treatment of pictures (PhotoShop). Direct dating (AMS) needed. |
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By |
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Record n. 438 / 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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