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Italia |
Locality: |
Novalesa - see original record (ask compiler - institution) |
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Piemonte |
Area: |
Valcenischia |
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Environment & Surface |
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Altitude:
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2320 m
Open-air
Shelter
Cave
Portable
Megalithic
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Geography: |
High
mountain pasture (cows and sheep) near the upper limit of the vegetation
area, steep west exposed slope, series of flat slabs, highly dominant.
The Valcenischia (Cenischia valley) joins the Susa valley (Italy, Turin)
to the French Haute Maurienne valley through the Moncenisio pass, which
is a very important alpine pass. |
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Geology: |
Filladic
calcschist (metamorphic rock composed by calcite and mica). This kind
of rock allows the pecking technique, but is more affected by the
erosion than the Permian sandstone, thus the siliceous component, not
soluble in water, is quite resistant. |
Surface: |
Smooth, microgranulated, flat, 25° of inclination, patina |
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Dimensions:
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Length 1.15 m.
Width 0.90 m.
Depth 0.20 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
Five pecked warrior male figures in the typical
square body style of the late Iron Age. Two figures clearly show the
sex. The crossed decoration on the breast strictly recall a late Iron
Age figure on the rock n. xx of Dos Sotto Lajolo (Paspardo, Valcamonica)
and could be related to a sort of armour like a cardiophylax. Dating in
camunnian figures is testified by archaeological comparisons (shapes of
metal weapons) and by the superimpositions among figures.
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Figures: |
total number 5
Square body sexuated anthropomorphic figure, square body warrior with
crossed decoration or armour on the breast, square body archer, square
body warrior with spear, square body figure
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
Figures are quite identical to the camunnian
ones of the last phase of the Iron Age (IV5 style), i.e. corresponding
to the Roman conquest, I cent. BC - I cent. AD
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Notes: |
Discovered
by G. M. Cametti, P. Meirano and A. Arcą on July 1993 during a survey
of the Gruppo Ricerche Cultura Montana of Turin (GRCM). |
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Conservation |
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Status: |
Public
Private
Park
Classified site
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Risk: |
Figures
are visible only on a grazing light. The site is very hard to reach,
poorly attended. The surface is affected by the erosion. The area, with
an high mountain climate, is under the snow for 7-8 months each year. |
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Conservation: |
Good
Quite good
Mediocre
Bad
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Intervention: |
The
rock has been completely recorded (International western Alps rock art
record), traced (contact tracing and digital vectorial rendition),
photographed (normal light and grazing light colour slides). A cast has
been executed (professional technique with elastomeric mould and copy in
synthetic resin). Recording data can be found at the Archaeological
Superintendence of Piedmont (Turin, Italy). An exhibition with pictures,
tracings and casts is exposed at the Novalesa ethnographic museum https://www.rupestre.net/archiv/tpop12.htm. More info (Italian version) at http://rupestre.net/archiv and http://rupestre.net/alps. |
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