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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
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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

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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
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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

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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 No comments

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

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Gavrinis, une approche multiscalaire

March 27, 2012 Archaeology, Featured, Megalithic art - arte megalitica, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 25 One comment

Gavrinis art

A multiscale approach: the workflow committed on the Gavrinis island cairn gathers archaeologists and archaeometrists, architects and surveyors, to acquire, handle and share information relative to a passage-tomb built at the beginning of the IVth millennium, one of the most famous of the European monumental heritage.

by S. Cassen, L. Lescop, V. Grimaud, G. Querré, B. Sune

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How do we recognise rock art?

August 20, 2003 Featured, Interpretation and semiotics, Methods - metodi, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 16 No comments

Aboriginal engraving

This paper was stimulated by an on-line discussion with Andrea Arcà (Case example 4: figurative and non-figurative below) about a need for archaeologists to treat figurative and non-figurative rock art differently.

by John Clegg

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Dating and (up)dating Valcamonica rock art

June 2, 2003 Featured, Methods - metodi, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 16, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Valcamonica chronology

Since the beginning the achievement of a correct chronological attribution has represented an important point of any rock art research. But since the beginning any chronological attribution has been subjected to the risk of being questioned, not accepted or simply updated. So rock art dating is often controversial…

by Andrea Arcà

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Grotte Chauvet Archaeologically Dated

February 21, 2000 Academics, Cave art, Featured, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 12 One comment

Chauvet cave

TRACCE no. 12 – by Christian Züchner

The Grotte Chauvet was discovered at Christmas 1994. A beautiful picture book came out only a few months later (Chauvet et al. 1995). It has been the main source of our knowledge and discussion up to now.

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Rock Art in Russian Far East and in Siberia

February 21, 1999 Academics, Asia, Featured, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 11 2 comments

Elangash

TRACCE no. 11 – by † Burchard Brentjes

Rock Art in Russian Far East and in Siberia. A bird’s eye view over a continent.
There are about half a million of petroglyphs known in Siberia and the Far East of Russia. Mobody knows up to now how many are still to be discovered…

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The motif of the “Camunian Rose”

May 1, 1998 Featured, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 10, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Camunian rose

TRACCE no. 10 – by Paola Farina

The motif of the “Camunian Rose” in the rock art of Valcamonica (Italy) part **.
In the past the scholars proposed some hypotheses about the meaning of the “Camunian rose”, engraved on several rocks in Valcamonica… Read more

Orientalizing motives in alpine rock art

May 1, 1998 Academics, Asia, Featured, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 10, Valcamonica - Valtellina No comments

Pazyryk horse

TRACCE no. 10 – by † Burchard Brentjes

Orientalizing motives in alpine rock art.
The rich ensemble of rock art in the Valle Camonica comprises several motives for which oriental parallels could be mentioned. Read more

Vermelhosa rock 1, palaeolithic figures

October 29, 1996 Featured, Iberian peninsula, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 5 No comments

Elephant figure

TRACCE no. 5 – by Andrea Arcà

Palaeolithic figures in rock n. 1 of the Vermelhosa – Côa Valley area.
Rock n. 1 of the Vermelhosa Valley (Côa Valley area) lies at 180 m altitude, on the left orographic side of the Douro River, which is flowing few scores of meters below.. Read more

Vermelhosa Iron Age rock art

October 29, 1996 Featured, Iberian peninsula, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 5 No comments

Duelling Iron Age scene

TRACCE no. 5 – by Angelo Fossati

The Iron Age in the Rock Art of Vermelhosa, Portugal.
Besides the figures attributable to the Palaeolithic times there are also petroglyphs that can be dated to the Iron Age (1st Millennium BC). These figures are engraved scratching the rock surface, sometimes with a stone, other times with a metal tool, as it is possible to note from the outlining. Read more

Danni alla Pera ‘d la Spina – The Thorn Rock damaged

June 3, 2013 Rock art SOS, Western Alps INDEX

spina150Nell’aprile del 2013 è stata danneggiata la Pera ‘dla Spina di Reano, una delle prime rocce a coppelle scoperte e pubblicate in italia, nel 1880. The Thorn Rock, one of the first cup-marked rocks ever published in Italy (1880) has been damaged in April 2013.

by GRCM


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Giornata della Preistoria – Prehistory day

June 1, 2013 Archaeology, News - announcements - notizie, Western Alps INDEX

museo_preistoria_vaieDomenica 2 Giugno 2013 a Vaie (TO – I), in piazza del Museo, Giornata della Preistoria. Ore 10-12 e 14-16 laboratorio sulla pietra levigata a cura del C.A.S.T. Dalle 16 alle 18 conferenze su preistoria e iconografia rupestre della Valle di Susa a cura di Stefania Padovan e di Andrea Arcà. Programma e galleria fotografica sull’arte rupestre della Valle di Susa. Polished stone workshop, Susa Valley prehistoric and rock art (here slideshow) lectures.

by C.A.S.T.- Centro di Archeologia Sperimentale Torino




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Il Finalese: commerci e cultura megalitica nella preistoria

May 26, 2013 Appennino, Archaeo-metallurgy, Archaeoastronomy, Archaeology, Cup marks - coppelle, Ethnography - Etnografia, Megalithic art - arte megalitica INDEX
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Ciappo Pianarella

Gli Autori, in seguito alla disamina di studi internazionali ed alle recenti osservazioni personali sull’argomento in esame, analizzano l’importanza della zona di Finale Ligure (Provincia di Savona, Liguria Occidentale, Italia), quale crocevia di culture e commerci fra aree distanti del Mediterraneo, dell’Italia e dell’Europa Transalpina durante la Preistoria.

by A. Pirondini*, G.P. Bocca*, F. Pirondini*, C. Pirondini e C. Villa*




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Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database updated

April 3, 2013 books – journals – reviews, Computerware, Database INDEX

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Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database updated.
After twenty years, the database contains over 27,000 citations.

by Leigh Marymor




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The Carcancha and the Apu

April 3, 2013 books – journals – reviews, South America INDEX
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Alto de Pitis

This book is the first to explain the exceptional relationship between unique images of skeleton-anthropomorphic petroglyphs and one of the most important Sacred Mountains of the Andes.
El sitio de arte rupestre de Alto de Pitis es el más importante en el Valle de Majes por su unión única con una Montaña Sagrada.

by Maarten van Hoek




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TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin 29 – Mar 2013

March 21, 2013 TRACCE Bulletin E-covers, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 INDEX
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# 29 – Mar 2013

TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin 29
special equinox issue: Mt. Bego research history
––––––––––––––––––> by Footsteps of Man
edited by Le Orme dell’Uomo (Valcamonica – I)

29: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6
7 8 9 10 11 12

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Mount Bego, XIX century research history

March 21, 2013 free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 INDEX
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Bego 1887 tracing

Issue 29 of TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin is dedicated to the research history of Mt. Bego, from its early “discovery” to the end of the 19th century, with the exception of Clarence Bicknell’s work. Two key points should be emphasized: the relationship with the development of paleethnology and the significance of British “cup-and-rings” studies. All early Mt. Bego authors virtually contribute to this issue since their papers are “served” online, not only as PDF files, but also as “flip-books”, giving in this way importance to sources and online e-book sharing since they provide a useful tool to all researchers interested in rock art studies, especially in this area of the Alps.

by Andrea Arcà (Footsteps of Man – IIPP)

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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 INDEX


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
| full text-image flip book and PDF (from Google Books, public domain) | Italian

[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

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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 INDEX
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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
| full text-image flip book and PDF (from Google Books, public domain) | French

[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

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The Meraviglie (Moggridge 1869)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 INDEX
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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.
| full text-image flip book and PDF (from Google Books, public domain) | English

[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)

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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 INDEX
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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.
| full text-image flip book and PDF (from Gallica – BnF, public domain) | French

[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

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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 INDEX
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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
| full text-image flip book and PDF (from Gallica-BNF, public domain) | French

[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

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Étude sur les sculptures préhistoriques (Blanc 1878)

March 21, 2013 Academics, free e-book, Interpretation and semiotics, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 INDEX
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Blanc 1878

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Blanc E., 1878. Étude sur les sculptures préhistoriques du Val d’Enfer près des Lacs des Merveilles, pp. 72-87, 1 pl. h.t.
| full text-image flip book and PDF (from Gallica – BnF, public domain) | French

[editor's note: in this paper, the author, a librarian from Nice, supports the idea that the engravings were the result of the cult of some malevolent deity, terrifying generator of lightning and thunder]

by Edmond Blanc

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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 INDEX
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1879 tracings

TRACCE free e-books

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.
| full text-image flip book and PDF (from Gallica – BnF,, public domain) | French

[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

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Iscrizioni simboliche preistoriche (Navello 1884)

March 21, 2013 free e-book, Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 INDEX
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Navello 1884

TRACCE free e-books

Navello S. 1884. Iscrizioni simboliche preistoriche dei laghi delle meraviglie nelle Alpi Marittime, Memoria Navello, pp. 16-21, 2 tavv.
| full text-image flip book and PDF (from TRACCE scan-OCR, public domain) | Italian

[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)

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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 INDEX
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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.
| full text-image flip book and PDF (from TRACCE scan-OCR, public domain) | Italian

[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

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

March 21, 2013 Mont Bego - Monte Bego, Open access, research history, TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29 INDEX
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1884, CAI logo

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Ghigliotti F. 1884. Alpi Marittime, Escursioni ai monti, Bollettino del Club Alpino Italiano, 1884, pp. 225-261.
| full text-image flip book and PDF (from TRACCE scan-OCR, public domain) | Italian

[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)

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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 INDEX

Fontanalba 1886

TRACCE free e-books

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.
| full text-image flip book and PDF (TRACCE 2013 re-editing, public domain) | Italian

[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

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