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Name

Italia Valcamonica, Rock of the Warriors (Roccia degli Armati)

Keywords: warriors, Iron Age, cup marks, anthropomorph, superimpositions
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:	Dos del Merichė, Pescarzo

Region:	Lombardia
Area:	Valcamonica


General view of the engraved Rock of Warriors with Luisa Tanzi (photo A. Fossati - Footsteps of Man 1993 )		Two warriors fighting. Rock of Warriors (photo A. Fossati - Footsteps of Man 1993 )

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:	450 m Open-air Shelter Cave Portable Megalithic
Geography:	The rock is positioned on the right side of the Valcamonica and on a prominent area, on a hill. The land around the site is used for corn and grape cultivation.
Proximity:	Close to the path and to a stream. Alpine hut near.

Geology:	The rock is a flat surface of sandstone (Verrucano of Lombardy), polished by the Pleistocene glacier.
Surface:	Flat and convex rock of sandstone with a subtriangular shape.
Dimensions:	Length 5.04 m. Width 4.00 m.


Particular of the Rock of warriors (photo A. Fossati - Footsteps of Man 1993 )		General tracing of Rock of Warriors (tracing by Luisa Tanzi 1993)

Art

Description:

Engravings Paintings Painted engravings High or low-relief Sculpture

Rock of the Warriors, in Capo di Ponte Municipality (BS-I), near the village of Pescarzo, locality name Dos del Merichė. Engravings executed by percussion and two figures by scratching. Horizontal surface. Shape subtriangular. Engravings are concentrated in all the rock (5,04m x 4m), oriented north-south/east-west, positioned near a cultivated area. Near the rock there are other surfaces with similar engravings of the same period. The surface is polished by the Pleistocene glacier. The engravings are especially of anthropomorphs with weapons but there are also some animals and cup marks. All the anthropomorphic figures are weaponed, so they are warriors, with spears, shields, helmets, daggers. The style of the anthropomorphs and of the weapons is very important for the chronology of the figures, with the superimpositions analysis and the comparison with the archaeological materials.

Figures:

total number 339
warriors, animals, cup marks.

Chronology:	Palaeolithic Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic Neolithic Copper Age Bronze Age Iron Age Roman Middle Age Modern Unknown Phases IV1, IV2, IV3, IV4, IV5, of the Iron Age: VIII cent. BC - I cent. BC/AD
Notes:	More info about Valcamonica and Alpine Rock Art at http://rupestre.net/alps.

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Conservation

Status:	Public Private Park Classified site
Risk:	The rock is actually covered by grass and soil, because the land is used to corn cultivation.

Conservation:	Good Quite good Mediocre Bad
Intervention:	Originally the engraved surface was covered by grass and soil, which were removed when discovered (1970) and than, again, when studied (1992-1993). The rock has been completely recorded (contact tracing, grazing light pictures) by Luisa Tanzi in 1992-1993 for her doctoral thesis of degree (University of Study of Milan).

Compiler:

E. Marchi 2001

Institution:

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

Record n. 480 / 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 Politécnico de Tomar (IPT, Portugal), CUEBC - European University Centre for Cultural Heritage (Italy - Europe), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas (España), Asociaciķn Cultural Colectivo Barbaķn (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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