TRACCE Facebook posts April-June 2013
Do we need a Facebook profile? Is it a powerful tool? No answer here in TRACCE, but only all the 110 posts of the TRACCE Facebook profile from April to June 2013 collected in a single PDF file. Better to keep and to share…
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by TRACCE Online Rock Art Bulletin
Taurini Celtic tribe meets Roman Legion at Turin
Turin, June 22 2013: Taurini celtic people, the inhabitants of the area of Turin during the Iron Age, and the Legio Prima Italica of the Roman Army meet for an historical re-enactment. This is occasion to show some alpine rock art images of the weapons and of the warriors of this period (short notes and photo-gallery).
by Andrea Arcà (Footsteps of Man)
Posted inbooks – journals – reviews Mid-America News - announcements - notizie North America TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 30
Rupestreweb, May-August 2013 new papers online
May-August 2013, twelve new papers on Rupestreweb, the most interesting online Mid and South-America rock art review; a rich overlook about: Brasil, Colombia, Cuba, Perú, República Dominicana. Petroglyphs, rock paintings, research, archaeology… want you go further?
Rupestreweb, Arte rupestre en América Latina.
by Rupestreweb
The Ibexes Rock
The Ibexes Rock shows one of the most interesting Iron Age hunting scenes (VII-IV cent. BC) of the western Alps. At the same time it hosts the highest alpine Roman inscriptions (I sec. AD). Many similarities with the Camunnian engraved hunting scenes, while here the ibex takes the place of the deer [these notes are taken by the EuroPreArt (European Prehistoric Art) database, short photogallery added].
by EuroPreArt
Danni alla Pera ‘d la Spina – The Thorn Rock damaged
Nell’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
Giornata della Preistoria – Prehistory day
Domenica 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
Posted inAppennino Archaeo-metallurgy Archaeoastronomy Archaeology Cup marks - coppelle Ethnography - Etnografia Megalithic art - arte megalitica TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 30
Il Finalese: commerci e cultura megalitica nella preistoria
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*
Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database updated
03/26/2013
Rock Art Studies Bibliographic Database updated.
After twenty years, the database contains over 27,000 citations.
by Leigh Marymor
The Carcancha and the Apu
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
Mount Bego, XIX century research history
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)
Posted inAcademics free e-book Mont Bego - Monte Bego Open access research history TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29
Corografia delle Alpi Marittime (Gioffredo 1660, 1839)
Gioffredo 1660 (1839)
TRACCE free e-books
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 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
Posted inAcademics free e-book Mont Bego - Monte Bego Open access research history TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29
Voyage aux alpes Maritimes (Foderé 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 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
Posted inAcademics free e-book Mont Bego - Monte Bego Open access research history TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29
The Meraviglie (Moggridge 1869)
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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 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)
Posted inAcademics free e-book Mont Bego - Monte Bego Open access research history TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29
Sculptures préhistoriques, Merveilles (Clugnet 1877)
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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
Posted inAcademics free e-book Mont Bego - Monte Bego Open access research history TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29
Une excursion aux Lacs des Merveilles (Henry 1877)
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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 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
Posted inAcademics free e-book Interpretation and semiotics Mont Bego - Monte Bego research history TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29
Étude sur les sculptures préhistoriques (Blanc 1878)
TRACCE free e-books
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 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
Posted inAcademics free e-book Mont Bego - Monte Bego Open access research history TRACCE Onl. RA Bull. 29
Gravures sur roches, Lacs des Merveilles (Rivière 1879)
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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 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
Iscrizioni simboliche preistoriche (Navello 1884)
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Navello S. 1884. Iscrizioni simboliche preistoriche dei laghi delle meraviglie nelle Alpi Marittime, Memoria Navello, pp. 16-21, 2 tavv.
| full text-image 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)