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Italia    Valcamonica, Redondo rock 20 EuroPreArt - European Prehistoric Art

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Keywords: Iron Age, warriors, vases, alphabet, scratching
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:

Redondo, Pescarzo

Region:

Lombardia

Area:

Valcamonica

 

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General view of the engraved rock 20 of Redondo (photo A. Fossati - Footsteps of Man 1993 )
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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:

450 m
Open-air   Shelter   Cave Portable   Megalithic

Geography:
On a terrace, in the right site of the Valley. Orientation of the slope: facing south-east. The land around the site is used for pasture and wood.

Proximity:

Close to the path and to a stream, alpine hut downside.

Geology:

Isolated engraved vertical surface of sandstone, with a purple colour (local name: Verrucano of Lombardy). It is a matter of a rock detachment, completely polished.

Surface:

Flat, vertical surface; some natural cracks, few yellows lichens

Dimensions:
Length 6.00 m.  Width 4.00 m.

 

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Art        

Description:

Engravings   Paintings   Painted engravings   High or low-relief   Sculpture
Redondo Rock 20, in Capo di Ponte Municipality (BS-I), near the village of Pescarzo, locality name Redondo. Engravings executed by percussion and scratching. Huge vertical surface. Shape rectangular. Engravings are concentrated in the middle part (1,85m x 2,25m), oriented to south-east, positioned near a pasture area and a chest-nut wood. Near the rock there are other vertical surfaces but without engravings. The surface is polished because it is a detachment of rock. The engravings are of: anthropomorphs, animals (dogs, deer, horses, birds), hut, vases, Latin alphabet. They have been executed by pecking and scratching technique. Many anthropomorphic figures are sexuated, male, with weapons. In one case the warriors are duelling. The scratched figures are covered by the pecking figures. The most interesting scratched figures are the daggers and the vases, rare figures in the rock art of Valcamonica. Between the pecking figures there are many warriors, animals, one hut and one trumpet. But the most important figure is a pregnant horse with the little horse in the stomach. This is an unicum in the rock art of the Valley.

Figures:
total number 291
46 anthropomorphs, especially with weapons, 33 animals, 10 artifacts,106 channels, 1 symbolic figure, 69 points, 26 undefined figures.

Chronology:

Palaeolithic   Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic   Neolithic   Copper Age   Bronze Age   Iron Age   Roman   Middle Age   Modern   Unknown
There are five different phases of engravings, four of them belong to the Iron Age (VI-I cent. BC) and the last one to the romanisation period (I cent. BC.-I cent. AD).

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, Redondo rock 20 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

 

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Conservation        

Status:

Public   Private   Park   Classified site

Risk:

Conservation:

Good   Quite good   Mediocre   Bad

Intervention:

Originally the engraved surface was partially covered by lichens and moss, which were removed when discovered (1970). The rock has been completely recorded (contact tracing, grazing light pictures) by Elena Marchi in 1993-1994 for her doctoral thesis of degree (University of Study of Milan).

 

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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