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Italia    Valcamonica, Vite-Deria rock 13 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

Italy map
Keywords: maps, topographical representation, rectangles, Copper Age, Neolithic
Institution: Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://rupestre.net/orme
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Location
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Country:

Italia

Locality:

Plas, Vite-Deria, Paspardo

Region:

Lombardia

Area:

Valcamonica

 

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General tracing of rock 13. Vite-Deria locality (tracing by Orme dell'Uomo 1990)
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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:

780 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
Rock n° 13 of Vite-Deria Locality is in the middle of a chestnuts wood long the road that connects Capo di Ponte to Paspardo. Around the rock there are many similar engraved rock. All the rocks of Vite-Deria Locality are in the Regional Park of Engravings of Ceto-Cimbergo-Paspardo Municipalities.

Proximity:

Around rock n° 13, in Vite-Deria Locality, there are a big wood of chestnuts, old huts abandoned and the road that connects Capo di Ponte to Paspardo. There is also a path that connects different engraved rocks.

Geology:

Rock n° 13 of Vite-Deria Locality is sand-stone polished by the glacier. The colour is grey. Around rock n° 13 there are a lot of similar engraved rock of sand-stone.

Surface:

The surface is grey, polished by the Pleistocene glacier. The sand-stone of the rocks of Vite-Deria Locality is fragile and there are a lot of detachments.

Dimensions:
Length 3.00 m.  Width 2.90 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
The rock n°13, a big emerging surface of sand-stone, presents engravings of two different periods: maps or topographical representation of the end of Neolithic or beginning of Copper Age and just one figure, a warrior, of Iron Age. Maps are engraved with an hammering very thin, typical of Copper Age engravings. The chronology is sure thanks to the study of superimpositions of this area and of the engravings of the Chalcolithic stelae.

Figures:
total number 54
50 maps (rectangular figures just with contour, or completely pecked inside, or with parallel and vertical lines inside); 3 lines of small cup-marks; 1 warrior.

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
53 figures of the end of Neolithic or beginning of Copper Age (style II-III A; IV-III millennium BC); 1 figure of Iron Age (style IV 2; VII-VI cent. BC).

Notes:

More info about Valcamonica and Alpine Rock Art at http://rupestre.net/alps.
 
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 Valcamonica, Vite-Deria rock 13 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:

The sand-stone of this area is fragile and there are on rocks a lot of detachments.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

Originally the engraved surface was covered by grass and soil, which were removed when discovered. The rocks of Vite-Deria locality have been completely recorded (contact tracing, grazing light pictures) by Footsteps of Man in 1989-2001. Until 1992 it was used to enlighten the figures the neutral method.

 

By          

Compiler:

E. Marchi 2001

Institution:

Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://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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