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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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2340 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: |
Square shape, smooth, microgranulated, flat, 5° of inclination, patina |
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Dimensions:
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Length 2.95 m.
Width 1.50 m.
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Art |
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Description: |
Engravings
Paintings
Painted engravings
High or low-relief
Sculpture
The warrior with the sword has the body pecked
in a stick style, in a more dynamic position than the square body
figures of the rock CRL002. A second figure of warrior is not clearly
readable, but shows a crossed decoration on the breast and a probable
round helmet.
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Figures: |
total number 4
Warrior with sword stick style body, warrior with decorated armour, unreadable figure, sparse pecking
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Chronology: |
Palaeolithic
Epipalaeolithic - Mesolithic
Neolithic
Copper Age
Bronze Age
Iron Age
Roman
Middle Age
Modern
Unknown
In this case there is not such a strict
relation with the late Iron Age figures of Valcamonica. An Iron Age
dating is very probable, without excluding a more recent dating.
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Notes: |
There
is a very interesting possible connection with the traditional weaponed
dance of the "Spadonari" (the men with sword,
https://www.rupestre.net/archiv/tpop1.htm) which is still today practised
every year at the beginning of February in the underlying villages of
Venaus and Giaglione. The rock has been 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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