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Italia    SUS 1 MONSAGNASCO 1 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art
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Institution: Gruppo Ricerche Cultura Montana  http://culturamontana.altervista.org/
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Location
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Country:

 Italia

Locality:

 Rivoli, Monsagnasco

Region:

 Piemonte

Area:

 Valsusa

 

 
Environment & Surface

Altitude:

404 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Morainic hilly amphitheatre, ridge, chestnuts wood

Proximity:

 Path

Geology:
Micaschist, quartz. The boulder was transported there by the glacier.

Surface:
Flat, irregular, from 10° to 40° of inclination

Dimensions:
Length 1.90 m.  Width 0.90 m.

 

 
Art        

Description:

 Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The surface shows a large concentrations of cup-marks, which are regular, of middle size (max 9 cm large) and polished. The footprint-like basin is 37 cm long, 15 cm large and 4 cm deep. Channels reach the basin or the external limit

Figures:
total number 66
The surface shows a large concentrations of cup-marks, which are regular, of middle size (max 9 cm large) and polished. The footprint-like basin is 37 cm long, 15 cm large and 4 cm deep. Channels reach the basin or the external limit

Chronology:

 Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
The dating of the cup-marked stone has always been controversial. Various elements anyway make probable an Iron Age dating for the similar Alpine cup-marks, as an iron tool is needed for deep and vertical- wall engravings. The study of the superimpositions in the Rupe Magna (Valtellina - I), where cup-marks cover some warriors figures, clarify an Iron Age dating, also confirmed by the Susa (I) cup-marks, executed over a rock cut with an iron pick and overlapped by a Roman building. In this case the footprint-like basin recalls the middle Iron Age footprints of Valcamonica and the first Iron Age burial slab of Sesto Calende, engraved with cup-marks and footprints.

Notes:
The rock was the first cup-marked stone ever discovered in Piedmont, and probably in Italy, in 1881 by G. Piolti, who was studying the morainic area for geologic surveys. He dug all around the stone only finding a "great amount of quartz stones".
 
Bibliography        





European total bibliography, by EuroPreArt partnersTotal (Europe)
Italia EuroPreArt general bibliography, by Gruppo Ricerche Cultura MontanaGeneral (country)
Specific SUS 1 MONSAGNASCO 1 bibliography, by Gruppo Ricerche Cultura MontanaSpecific (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:
The rock is safe still the wood is preserved.

Conservation:

 Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

 
By          

Compiler:

 Andrea Arcà

Institution:

 Gruppo Ricerche Cultura Montana  http://culturamontana.altervista.org/
 
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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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