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Locality: |
Cavour - Rocca di Cavour |
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Piemonte |
Area: |
Rocca di Cavour |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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420 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
Woody slope northward exposed of the Rocca of Cavour, vertical rocky wall eastward exposed, shelters, chestnut wood. The Rocca di Cavour is an inselberg: it is the top of a mountain emerging from the plane and divided from the Alpine arc, which is very close. It shows a peculiar geologic, natural and archaeological environment. |
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Geology: |
Gneiss, silica skin (opal or ialite) |
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Smooth, flat, from 80° to 90° of inclination, patina |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.40 m.
Width 1.20 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The paintings have been executed over a sheltered surface. The main element is constituted by an elongated stick-body and lowered arms female (it has a round dot between the legs) figure, with a sort of upside-down "W" head or hat with zigzagging lines. This figure covers a group of aligned dotting and is covered by a little and darker anthropomorphic figure. It is possible to notice three different colours: pink for the aligned dotting, dark orange (female figure), dark red (arrow-like figure).
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Figures: |
total number 11
1 stick body female anthropomorphic (defined also as poli-anthropomorphic) figure, 1 lowered arms anthropomorphic figure, 1 arrow-like figure, 3 groups of aligned dotting (around 125 dots in total), 4 unidentifiable figures (with another probable anthropomorphic figure), a recent writing (PAS)
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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 superimpositions of Les Oullas (Ubaye - F) make probable a late Neolithic - first Copper Age chronological frame (3400-2700 BC).
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Notes: |
The paintings were discovered on September 1979 by Francesco Zavattaro. Actually three tracings are available: the CeSMAP tracing (1998), the Gambari tracing (based upon the previous and adding more particular of hat on the base of the original pictures of F. Zavattaro, executed before the damage of the cliff-nail), the Zavattaro tracing (based upon the original pictures executed before the damage) and the Footsteps of Man tracing (executed on the rock with the help of the digitally enhanced images).
http://www.cesmap.it/Centro Studi e Museo d'arte Preistorica di Pinerolo - Cooperativa Archeologica Le Orme dell'Uomo (Footsteps of Man) |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
The paintings are naturally protected by the silica skin. Part of the head has been cancelled by a cliff-nail. Actually the area is protected, inside the Regional Park of the Rocca di Cavour. |
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Conservation: |
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Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The Archaeological Superintendence of Piedmont removed the cliff-nail, executed an analysis of the patina and of the pigments and promoted an intervention of restoration. The rock has also been completely recorded (International western Alps rock art record), traced (contact tracing and digital vectorial rendition), photographed (normal light colour slides and digital PhotoShop enhancement) under enchargement of the Archaeological Superintendence of Piedmont. |
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| Record n. 427 / 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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