by Alessandra de Nardis
Another news that comes from Abruzzo and precisely from the Pescosansonesco area where the archaeologist Guido Palmerini discovered handprints made in red pigment dating back to the fourth-fifth millennium BC and imprinted on the rocks in a location that remains top secret for safety.
Of the young researcher who is part of the Cepam laboratory of theUniversité Cote d'Azur of Nice, we had already recently reported the first results published in the field of archaeological research on the rock art of the Abruzzo Apennines Majella rock project .
In recent days Palmerini has participated in the XXVIII Valcamonica Symposium Rock-art, human heritage, in Capo di Ponte (Brescia), where he presented the scientific research program focused on the study of rock art financed by the Maiella Park (biodiversity and scientific research service) with the University of Nice and the Paris Man Museum . The Superintendency of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the provinces of Chieti, Pescara and L'Aquila also participated in the study with researchers from the Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle-Umr 7194 of Paris.
This discovery, together with the sediments occupying the cave on Mount La Queglia already studied in the 70s by the prehistory scholar Antonio Mario Radmilli, constitutes another important sign of human presence in the Neolithic era in the Pescono area. We look forward to images and investigations of this latest discovery.
We also inform you that the Majella National Park invites its visitors to report any findings to info@parcomajella.it.
In order to preserve the contexts of discovery intact, enthusiasts and interested parties are also invited not to disseminate material currently subject to scientific research on social networks.
