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Name      
Italia    Monte Bracco - Roca la Casna EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: female, breast, schematic, anthropomorphic
Institution: Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man)  http://rupestre.net/orme
Record
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Orme dell'Uomo - Footsteps of Man, Valcamonica - Italy
 
Location
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Country:

Italia

Locality:

Sanfront, Solie

Region:

Piemonte

Area:

Monte Bracco

 

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The impressive spring-board of the "Bec la Casna" (photo A. Arcà - Footsteps of Man 1997)
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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:

900 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
steep slope southward exposed. Chestnuts and hazel-trees wood, abandoned harvest of chestnuts and hazelnuts.

Proximity:

path, alpine hut

Geology:

quartzite

Surface:

smooth, flat, fractured, steps

Dimensions:
Length 6.60 m.  Width 4.30 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
With the Pera dij Cros in Valchiusella this is one of the few engraved rocks in the western Alps showing a large number of anthropomorphic schematic figures. In this case they are quite all female figures: the breast is represented by two little cup-marks aside the bust. It is a common stylistic feature in the Bronze Age alpine rock art. Most of figures are very faint: some of them show deeper engraved parts in correspondence of the body, of the arms and the head, which probably have been re-engraved, perhaps also in recent times. The crosses and the writings show a more angled section, testifying a metallic tool execution.

Figures:
total number 119
30 schematic female figures, 1 schematic male figure, 5 little cup-marks, 3 cross-like figures, 1 modern writing (ERI), 1 boundary limit, 5 grouped little cup-marks, 8 straight segments, 65 sparse little "hole" or cup-marks.

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
The anthropomorphic figures can be compared to the ones of the remedellian phase of the Copper Age (Valcamonica, stick body and triangle position legs, 2700-2400 B.C.) or to the ones of the end of the Bronze Age (Valcamonica, so called "praying figures", with triangle position legs, 1200-900 B.C.). In a shelter near the rock some pieces of ancient Bronze Age pottery have been found.

Notes:

The rock is impressively similar to a large spring-board: the jump downside is many meters high. The same popular name "Roc" (rock) or "Bec" (beak) clearly derives from this particular.
 
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 Monte Bracco - Roca la Casna 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 site is poorly attended. Risks of natural consumption and desquamation.

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

The rock has been completely recorded (International western Alps rock art record), traced (contact tracing and digital vectorial rendition), photographed (colour slides) under enchargement of the Archaeological Superintendence of Piedmont.

 

By          

Compiler:

Andrea Arcà

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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