Rock Drawings in Valcamonica

梵尔卡莫尼卡谷地岩画

🇮🇹 Italy📅 1979 Inscribed

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Valcamonica, situated in the Lombardy plain, has one of the world's greatest collections of prehistoric petroglyphs – more than 140,000 symbols and figures carved in the rock over a period of 8,000 years and depicting themes connected with agriculture, navigation, war and magic.

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The first World Heritage site in Italy, home to one of the richest petroglyph collections in Europe.

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The carvings date from the Epipaleolithic to modern times but sharply declined after Roman rule.

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They illustrate the development of prehistoric sociology, mentality, and daily life, including: Hunting in the Epipaleolithic, Sedentary settlements and animal domestication in the Neolithic, The wheel, wagons, and metallurgy in the Copper Age, Weapons in the Bronze Age.