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Val Meraviglie e Fontanalba (Barocelli 1921)

September 2, 2015 Academics, Alpine rock art - Arte rupestre alpina, Bronze Age, Copper age, Featured, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37 No comments

Barocelli 1921

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Barocelli P. 1921. Val Meraviglie e Fontanalba (Note di escursioni paletnologiche), Atti della Società Piemontese d’Archeologia e Belle Arti, vol. X, fasc. 1, 51 pp., X tavv.
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[editor’s note: this 1921 paper expresses the first complete archaeological and chronological framework of the Mt. Bego petroglyphic complex; the author, Piero Barocelli was the archaeologist charged with the area, which was at this time managed by the Italian Royal Archaeological Superintendence; Clarence Bicknell, during the last years of his life, passed to him the baton of the research]

by Piero Barocelli – 1921

Val Meraviglie e Fontanalba – Tavole (Barocelli 1921)

August 18, 2015 Academics, Alpine rock art - Arte rupestre alpina, Bronze Age, Copper age, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull.37 No comments

Barocelli 1921, plates

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Tavole I-X da:
Barocelli P. 1921. Val Meraviglie e Fontanalba (Note di escursioni paletnologiche), Atti della Società Piemontese d’ Archeologia e Belle Arti, vol. X, fasc. 1, 51 pp., X tavv.

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[editor’s note: the 1921 paper by Piero Barocelli is enriched by 10 plates – tracings, drawings and pictures – accompanined by very detailed captions]

by Piero Barocelli – 1921

The Motocachy Pampa Disaster, Peru

February 24, 2014 Academics, Featured, Open access, Protection – Salvaguardia, Rock art SOS, SOS, South America, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 31 2 comments

Motocachy Pampa

The UNESCO’s World Heritage List now registers almost a thousand properties. Only two percent of the World Heritage List comprises rock art sites. Regrettably 44 of those properties are in danger, which proves that being on the World Heritage List is not a guarantee that nothing will endanger the site. I will focus the discussion mainly on rock art sites in the deserts of western Peru.

by Maarten van Hoek – rockart@home.nl

Palaeolithic rock engravings at Vermelhosa

February 24, 2014 Academics, Featured, Iberian peninsula, Open access, Palaeolithic, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 31 No comments

Vermelhosa

SIMÕES DE ABREU M., ARCÀ A., FOSSATI F., JAFFE L., 1998. Palaeolithic rock engravings at Vermelhosa, Côa valley archaeological park, Portugal, in UISPP – International Union of Prehistoric and Protohistoric Sciences, Proceedings of the XIII Congress, Volume 3, Forlì
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by Mila SIMÕES DE ABREU, Andrea ARCÀ, Angelo FOSSATI, Ludwig JAFFE

Corografia delle Alpi Marittime (Gioffredo 1660, 1839)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

Gioffredo 1660 (1839)

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Gioffredo P., 1839 [~1660]. Storia delle Alpi Marittime, corografia, libro I, in Storia delle Alpi Marittime di Pietro Gioffredo libri XXVI, Torino, capo XIII
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[editor’s note: the first written news of the Laghi delle Meraviglie (Marvels Lakes) – Mt. Bego – engraved rocks, printed edition (1839) of a manuscript compiled around 1660, based on a late 16th century relation]

by Pietro GIOFFREDO

Voyage aux alpes Maritimes (Foderé 1821)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

Fodéré 1821

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Foderé F. E., 1821. Voyage aux Alpes Maritimes, ou histoire naturelle, agraire, civile et médicale, du comté de Nice et pays limitrophes, Paris, pp. 18-19
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[editor’s note: in this book it is possible to read the first few lines in French, regarding Mt. Bego’s rock carvings. Dans ce livre on peut lire la première mention imprimée en Français sur les gravures rupestres du Mont Bego]

by François-Emmanuel Foderé

The Meraviglie (Moggridge 1869)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

1868 drawings

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Moggridge M. 1869. The Meraviglie, in International Congress of prehistoric Archaeology, transactions of the Third Session, London, 359-362, 5 plates.
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[editor’s note: this paper marking the scientific discovery of Mt. Bego’s petroglyphic complex – one of the two Alpine rock art poles – is due to an English botanist, member of the Italian Alpine Club]

by Matthew MOGGRIDGE, F.G.S. (Fellow of the Geological Society of London)

Sculptures préhistoriques, Merveilles (Clugnet 1877)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

1877 relevés

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Clugnet Léon, 1877. Sculptures préhistoriques situées sur les bords du lacs des Merveilles (au sud-est du col de Tende, Italie), pp. 379-387.
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[editor’s note: research history, In this paper, the first French work, the author, a librarian from Lyon, supports the idea that the engravings were made by shepherds or hunters; detailed plates]

by Léon CLUGNET

Une excursion aux Lacs des Merveilles (Henry 1877)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

Henry 1887

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Henry [M.] 1877. Une excursion aux Lacs des Merveilles près Saint-Dalmas-de-Tende, Annales de la Société des lettres, science et arts des Alpes-Maritimes, t. IV, pp. 185-205
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[editor’s note: The author thinks that the Mt. Bego engravings are natural rocks marking made by the glaciers; no scholar agreed with him]

by [M.] HENRY

Gravures sur roches, Lacs des Merveilles (Rivière 1879)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

1879 tracings

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Rivière E., 1879. Gravures sur roches des lacs des Merveilles au val d’Enfer (Italie), in Association française pour l’avancement des sciences, Paris, pp. 783-793, I tav.
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[editor’s note: this paper better details the French scientific discovery of Mt. Bego’s petroglyphic complex and it is due to the physician and archaeologist Émile Rivière, devoted to the study of the Palaeolithic]

by Émile RIVIÈRE

Iscrizioni simboliche preistoriche (Navello 1884)

March 21, 2013 free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

Navello 1884

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Navello S. 1884. Iscrizioni simboliche preistoriche dei laghi delle meraviglie nelle Alpi Marittime, Memoria Navello, pp. 16-21, 2 tavv.
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[editor’s note: the first Italian detailed paper, presented to the Alpine Club’s congress, “translates” the contents expressed by L. Clugnet as well as re-drawing his plates]

by Serafino NAVELLO (representing the International Alpine Club of Nizza)

Iscrizioni simboliche, Lago delle Meraviglie (Prato 1884)

March 21, 2013 free e-book, Interpretation and semiotics, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

1884, CAI logo

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Prato A. F. 1884. Sulle iscrizioni simboliche del Lago delle Meraviglie, Rivista Alpina Italiana, Periodico mensile del Club Alpino Italiano, 9, 30 settembre 1884, pp. 97-98.
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[editor’s note: in this short paper, published in the Italian Alpine Club review, the author suggests that the Marvels Lakes engravings where made to celebrate hunters with their preys, who died in this area]

by A. Filippo PRATO

Alpi Marittime. Escursioni ai monti… Bego (Ghigliotti 1884)

March 21, 2013 Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

1884, CAI logo

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Ghigliotti F. 1884. Alpi Marittime, Escursioni ai monti, Bollettino del Club Alpino Italiano, 1884, pp. 225-261.
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[editor’s note: here an accurate report of a mountaineering ascent to the Mt. Bego summit, with a visit to the rock engravings and the first mention of the well-known Latin inscription “Hoc qui scripsit…”]

by A. Felice GHIGLIOTTI (member of the Italian Alpine Club)

I laghi delle Meraviglie e Fontanalba (Celesia 1886)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

Fontanalba 1886

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Celesia E., 1886. Escursioni alpine, I. – I laghi delle Meraviglie, II. – Fontanalba, estratto Boll. uff. Min. pubblica istr., fasc. V, maggio 1886, 27 pp., 4 tavv.
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[editor’s note: Here the discovery of the Fontanalba area, 68 figures in two plates. The first Italian academic paper on Mt. Bego’s engravings, due to the literatus E. Celesia, who suggests that the engravings were made by the Phoenicians]

by Emanuele CELESIA

Le rupi scolpite delle Alpi Marittime (Issel 1901)

March 21, 2013 Academics, Featured, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 No comments

Fontanalba picture

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Issel A. 1901. Le rupi scolpite nelle alte valli delle Alpi Marittime, Bullettino di paletnologia italiana, s. III, t. VII, a. XXVII, n. 10-12, pp. 218-259.
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[editor’s note: the most detailed paper until that time on Mt. Bego’s engravings; Issel never recorded the engraved rocks, but attentively examined the literature and was in close and friendly contact with C. Bicknell]

by Arturo ISSEL

Entre Mont Bego et Val Camonica

January 13, 2013 Academics, Archaeology, Featured, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 28, Western Alps No comments

Merveilles, le Sorcier

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Arcà Andrea, 2011.
Entre Bego et Val Camonica: une clé pour mieux comprendre l’origine de l’art rupestre dans les Alpes, in BEPAA XXII, pp. 71-89.
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La comparaison entre ces deux sites est cruciale pour l’encadrement global de l’art rupestre alpin.

by Andrea Arcà

Piero Barocelli, a rupestrian archeology pioneer

December 13, 2012 Academics, Alpine rock art - Arte rupestre alpina, Archaeology, books – journals – reviews, Featured, Methods - metodi, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 27, Western Alps One comment

Piero Barocelli, archaeologist

Piero Barocelli’s work on Mt. Bego Petroglpyphs plays a highly original and markedly pioneering role for the Alpine and European rupestrian archaeology. Full text-image inline PDF available (TRACCE open access papers).

Gli studi di Piero Barocelli sui petroglifi del Monte Bego assumono per l’archeologia rupestre alpina ed europea una posizione fortemente originale e di marcato pionierismo. Disponibile la versione PDF integrale.

by Andrea Arcà

Archaeology in Finalese Area (Western Liguria)

June 19, 2012 Appennino, Archaeology, Megalithic art - arte megalitica, Open access, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 26 No comments

Ciappu de Cunche

A large number of archaeological sites and artifacts dating back to prehistoric times in Finale Ligure area (Western Liguria), are due to the appearance of the first manifestations of human religiosity. The Author, in light of these finds, explores the primitive roots of the religious phenomenon.

by Alfredo Pirondini

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