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Italia Valcamonica, Cemmo 2

Keywords: Copper Age, sun, daggers, axes, animals, ploughing and chart scene, halberd, human figures
Institution: Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man) http://rupestre.net/orme

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Country:	Italia
Locality:	Cemmo, Pian delle Greppe

Region:	Lombardia
Area:	Valcamonica


Cemmo 2 boulder (photo by A. Fossati - Le Orme dell'Uomo)		Daggers and anthropomorphic figures on Cemmo 2 boulder (photo by A. Fossati - Le Orme dell'Uomo)

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Environment & Surface

Altitude:	400 m Open-air Shelter Cave Portable Megalithic
Geography:	Boulder is found in the plain called Pian delle Greppe at Cemmo, fraction of Capo di Ponte (BS). North oriented. The land was used for grapes, now on for pastures.
Proximity:	Not far from the road that connects Cemmo to Capo di Ponte, in front of the local museum and the Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici

Geology:	Slide boulders, sandstone
Surface:	vertical, smoothed, patinated,
Dimensions:	Length 2.50 m. Width 2.60 m.


Chariot and plough (photo by A. Fossati - Le Orme dell'Uomo)		Human figures on Cemmo 2 boulder (photo by A. Fossati - Le Orme dell'Uomo)

Art

Description:	Engravings Paintings Painted engravings High or low-relief Sculpture Capo di Ponte Municipality (BS-I), in the Pian delle Greppe site. The engravings are executed on a boulder, felt from the top of the mountain in prehistoric times, by hammering. Almost all the engravings are concentrated on the frontal surface in the middle upper part of the surface.
Figures:	total number 102 Sun, axes, daggers of Remedello type, animals, ploughing and chart scene, halberd, human figures

Chronology:

Palaeolithic Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic Neolithic Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Roman Middle Age Modern Unknown

Copper Age (style III A 1; 2900/2800-2400 BC). The style IIIA1 (as defined by DE MARINIS) is dated by comparison between the engraved figures and the real objects (Copper Age daggers) found at the burial site of Remedello (BS). It is so called "Remedellian". The next style (IIIA2) pertains to a bell-beaker phase (2400-2200 BC).

Notes:

The boulder was first discovered by G. Laeng in 1902, that then presented the discoveries to the Commitee of the National Monuments in 1909, and then published it in 1914. During the end of the '20 P. Graziosi and G. Marro came to Cemmo to study the boulder. Cemmo 2 was under the soil and Marro could rediscover this boulder only in 1930. More info about Valcamonica and Alpine Rock Art at http://rupestre.net/alps.

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the chariot (photo by A. Fossati - Le Orme dell'Uomo)		Complete tracing (tracing by Le Orme dell'Uomo - Civico Museo Archeologico di Bergamo)

Conservation

Status:	Public Private Park Classified site
Risk:	There are problem of esfoliations with cracks. There are traces of vandalism of German soldiers during the last war: they shot the boulder with a bullet gun.

Conservation:	Good Quite good Mediocre Bad
Intervention:	The boulder has been traced and restored few times. It is visited by many students during the year. It is inserted in the national Park of rock engravings.

Compiler:

A. Fossati 2001

Institution:

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

Record n. 451 / 807

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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 Polit�cnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cient�ficas (España), Asociaci�n Cultural Colectivo Barba�n (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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