Category:Rock paintings or graffiti
The Grotta del Romito, near Papasidero (CS), represents one of the most interesting and important cave sites of the Italian Paleolithic, thanks also to the excavations conducted by Paolo Graziosi in the 60s which brought to light some engraved figures of a naturalistic nature (figures of bovids) and abstract (linear signs) as well as…
See moreIn total, thirty-one black and one red paintings were identified, distributed along the entire extension of the rocky wall, alternating with areas blackened and eroded by mold and lichens caused by modest water leaks. The figures present can be classified substantially into three categories: structures with scalloped motifs…
See moreEvidence of historical use of the shelter is limited to a few traces of carbon black, perhaps attributable to the remains of hearths, some dating back to the first half of the XNUMXth century. BC The most interesting finds are the paintings identified on the back wall of the cave, twenty-two in total, red in colour, presumably…
See moreIt is a rock shelter in the locality of Ferentillo, formed by two niches with good coverage, about 14 m long. and depth 5 m. It faces south and is located at an altitude of 375 m. Evidence of historical attendance is limited to some traces of carbon black. Along the wall…
See moreThe testimonies of historical attendance of the shelter are completely absent. Inside, eleven black paintings have been identified, spaced apart. There are arboriform and branch-shaped motifs and two schematic anthropomorphic motifs, one of which is incomplete and the other with a "T" face and feet shaped like the claws of…
See moreGrotta di Pozzo is an important archaeological site of the Italian Paleolithic as it preserves traces of human attendance from the ancient Epigravettian (about 23.000 years ago) to the Sauveterrian (about 9.000 years ago), both datings calibrated to C14; in areas close to the surface few traces dating back to the Middle Neolithic have been found,…
See moreThe pictorial complex which, from a content and iconographic point of view, constitutes a unicum in Basilicata, has interested several scholars, not only as regards the interpretation of the representations, but above all for the dating of the paintings, which has undergone, at depending on the orientations and the state of the discoveries, remarkable…
See moreThe "shelter under the rock" is located in the Centuripe area (Enna), in the Picone district, on the right bank of the Simeto river, just 2 km from the Stentinellian necropolis of Fontanazza, on the opposite bank of the river (see fig. 1). The definition of "shelter" is inaccurate: the place, in fact, does not protect against the agents...
See moreGrotta Romanelli is an important archaeological and fossil site of the Italian Paleolithic as it preserves traces of the passage of prehistoric man from 120.000 to about 8.000 BC through numerous archaeological and paleontological finds, human burials, wall and furniture art. Located in an inlet on the Salento coast, near Castro in the province of Lecce,…
See moreThe Cave of Cala dei Genovesi, on the western side of the island of Levanzo, is the place where one of the most important examples of late-glacial wall art in the entire Mediterranean was found, a complex of Palaeolithic rock art of considerable value which makes it a small "sanctuary". We find here two distinct cycles,…
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