Identificador: TDX:3394
Autores: SIGARI, DARIO
Resumen:
This thesis manuscript is a systematic work on the Palaeolithic rock art in the Italian peninsula including it into a wider debate involving the Euro-Mediterranean region, and offering a valid support for further researches in this field.
Eleven sites were selected as main review cases, according to their richness and significance from a bibliographic point of view: Balzi Rossi (Florestano, Blanc-Cardini and Caviglione caves - Ventimiglia, Imperia), Bàsura cave (Toirano, Savona), Arene Candide cave (Toirano, Savona), Luine open air rock art sites (Rocks No. 6 and 34 - Darfo-Boario Terme, Brescia), Fumane cave (Fumane, Verona), Romito shelter, Paglicci cave (Rignano Garganico, Foggia) and Romanelli cave (Castro, Lecce).
The sites were separately discussed adopting a multidisciplinary approach introducing all the relevant aspects, the geology, the archaeology, the history of the studies and the preservation analysis, before getting to a final discussion of the rock art evidence.
The review of the already known sites has permitted to better re-arrange all the data, in terms of chronology and spatial distribution. Moreover the new methodological proposal let introduce for the first time in systematic way a series of analysis and variables in the study of this topic, e.g. the first U/Th dating, the geological evaluation of the glacial lines on the Valcamonica rocks. An approach which goes beyond the mere morphological analysis, casting a different light on the rock art phenomenon during the Upper Palaeolithic in the Italian peninsula.
So it was possible to notice a high variability in the rock art themes, in its chronology and in the relationships with the other areas, highlighting possible social dynamics occurred which are the cause of the symbol diffusion, and showing how the Italian peninsula was a bridgehead and not a dead-end in the wider panorama of the Palaeolithic rock art of the Euro-Mediterranean region.
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