The Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici is once again organising the Valcamonica Symposium. More than a year after the start of the pandemic, which delayed numerous initiatives and prevented new research and interactions between institutions and researchers, this congress aims to facilitate communication and exchanges and to establish new contacts and collaborations, redefine objectives and facilitate planning.
The Valcamonica Symposium will be an opportunity to present new research and news on rock art sites from around the world; it will allow us to deepen the debate on specific issues, geographical locations and specific periods, but above all it aims to become a stimulus to share reflections and research methods, to review the tools of museumization in light of  new potential for sites, in museums and on social platforms.

The official languages of the Valcamonica Symposium are: English, Italian, French and Spanish.

Headquarters
The Auditorium Cittadella Cultura, Capo di Ponte, Valcamonica, Italy. Conformity to current rules, Digital COVID Certificate (Green Pass) is required to access the conference room. Access to the room is subject to availability.

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Scientific Committee
ABREU Mila Simões de, Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal; CCSP, Italy
AMANCIO MARTINELLI Suely, PROARQ/UFS, Brazil
FOSSATI Angelo E., Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano; Le Orme dell’Uomo, Italy
GARCÍA ARRANZ José Julio, Universidad de Extremadura, Spain;
HERNANDEZ LLOSAS Maria Isabel, University of Buenos Aires, Argentina
HEYD Thomas, University of Victoria, Canada
KEYSER James D., Oregon Archaeological Society, USA
KUMAR Giriraj, Rock Art Society of India, India
MCDONALD Josephine, University of Western Australia
MASAO Fidelis T., University of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
MATTIOLI Tommaso, ArcheoRes, Italy
PEDROTTI Annaluisa, Università di Trento; CCSP, Italy
STEBERGLØKKEN Heidrun M.V., Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Norway
TECCHIATI Umberto, Università degli Studi di Milano, Italy

Honorary President VCS2021: Emmanuel Anati, Founding President of the CCSP

Executive and Operational Committee
ABREU Mila Simões de
ALBEROTANZA Roberta
CITTADINI Tiziana
FOSSATI Angelo
TROLETTI Federico
GIORGI Marisa
MEDICI Paolo
PEZZONI Nives

Communication Plan (download the printable version)
(update on October 20, 2021)

28 OCTOBER, THURSDAY
10:30	Opening of the Conference - Greetings of the Authorities	view video
	Andrea Ghetti, Major of Capo di Ponte
	Federico Troletti, CCSP President
	On. Marina Berlinghieri, Camera dei Deputati
	On. Giuseppe Donina, Camera dei Deputati
	Maurizio Di Stefano, ICOMOS Italia President
	Stefano Bruno Galli, Assessore all’Autonomia e Cultura Regione Lombardia
	Sergio Bonomelli, GIC Valle Camonica
	Emmanuel Anati, Founding President of the CCSP, Honorary President VCS2021
11:30	Round Table PRAT-CARP (chairperson Roberta Alberotanza)
	Roberta Alberotanza (Centro Camuno Studi Preistorici – Council member of Prehistoric Rock Art Trails Cultural Route): Introduction / presentation of PRAT CARP
	Christophe Vigne (Director of Pôle d'Interpretation de la Préhistoire, Dordogne, France): The Pôle d'Interpretation de la Préhistoire (about the history and the current mission and activities as part of the diffusion of the UNESCO declaration of Vézère Valley)
	Ramón Montes Barquín (Technical coordinator of PRAT CARP and research of rock art in Cantabrian Region, Spain): The Cantabrian region (current activities on diffusion from Cantabria)
	Thierry Aubry: (Scientific Coordinator of Côa Park Foundation, Portugal): The Côa Valley (current projects on diffusion in the Côa Park’s sites and museum)
	Sara Garcês (Instituto Politécnico de Tomar / Museu de Arte Pré-Histórica e do Sagrado do Vale do Tejo, Mação, Portugal): The Museum of rock art of Maçâo (news about the Tagus river and its rock art… discoveries and the Archaeological Park foreseen for a next future)
12:45	Round Table  ICOMOS CAR (chairperson Roberta Alberotanza)
	Maurizio Di Stefano - ICOMOS Italia President
	Cristina Lafuente - CCNAR-ICOMOS Spain (Scientific National Committee of Rock Art): El Comité Científico Nacional de Arte Rupestre de ICOMOS-España
	Angelo Fossati - CAR Italia (Cooperativa Archeologica “Le Orme dell’Uomo”): Le iniziative legate alla Cooperativa archeologica le Orme dell’uomo
	Francesca Roncoroni - CAR Italia (CCSP): Le iniziative legate al Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici
	Darko Komšo - CAR Croatia (Director of Museum of Archaeology of Istria): CROatian Rock Art (CRORA) - state of research
13:30	Lunch Break
14:30	ROCK ART, DIDACTICS AND MUSEOLOGY (Coordinated by: Tiziana Cittadini, Umberto Tecchiati)	view video
14:30	Ramón Montes Barquín: Visiting rock art, the standards of quality to offer a great experience to the visitors. The European Rock Art Heritage label (ERAH) of the Cultural Route of the Council of Europe “Prehistoric Rock Art Trails”
15:00	Tiziana Cittadini: Musealizzazione e fruizione dell'arte rupestre: fra la ricerca del minimo impatto ambientale e nuove tecnologie. Il caso della Riserva Naturale delle incisioni rupestri di Ceto, Cimbergo e Paspardo
15:20	Gianluca Nicosia: Presentazione APP di facilitazione e informazione alla visita al sito con arte rupestre di Foppe di Nadro
15:40	Debate
16:00	Break
16:10	Maria Giuseppina Ruggiero, Valentina Cane: Mupre and Naquane Park. Forms and educational contents for everyone before and after 2020
16:30	Silvia Sandrone, Maria Gaignon, Sylvain Rouah: Le musée départemental des Merveilles à Tende (France, Alpes-Maritmes) entre tradition, innovation et résilience
16:50	Johnny Murison: Rock art management in Kuku-yalanji country
17:10	Debate
29 OCTOBER, FRIDAY
09:00	NEW RESEARCH AND NEWS IN WORLD ROCK ART - PENINSULAR ITALY AND THE MEDITERRANEAN BASIN (Coordinated by: Tommaso Mattioli)	view video
09:10	Tommaso Mattioli: The painted post-Palaeolithic rock art of the Italian peninsula south of the Alps. What is the state of the art?
09:30	Antonino Filippi, Dario Seglie, Enzo Giuseppe Munna: Pitture rupestri preistoriche nella Sicilia Nord-occidentale (Italia): la Grotta dei Cavalli (S. Vito lo Capo) e il Riparo Polifemo (Erice)
09:50	Guido Palmerini: MajellaRockArtProject: new rock art research from the Abruzzo  Appennines
10:10	Giorgia Aprile, Alberto Potenza, Ida Tiberi: Grotta dei Cervi, un santuario della Preistoria del Mediterraneo
10:30	Debate
10:40	Break
11:00	Darko Komšo: CRORA - Croatian Rock Art, with an Emphasis on the Discoveries of the Schematic Rock Art in Croatia
11:20	Francesca Roncoroni: Metodologia di rilievo di scritte e graffiti su superfici intonacate a Villa d’Este, Villa Adriana e al Santuario di Ercole Vincitore a Tivoli
11:40	Juan Antonio Gómez-Barrera, Enrique Baquedano Pérez: New discoveries at "Coat of the Lastra",  Valonsadero
12:00	Claudia Serrano Aranda: Consilidation as a preventive conservation mechanism for Levantine Rock Art. Los Toros del Prado del Navazo (Albarracín, Teruel)
12:20	Debate
12:30	Lunch Break
14:00	Mila Simões de Abreu: The boar prehistoric figures in Trás-os-Montes-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal
14:20	NEW RESEARCH AND NEWS IN WORLD ROCK ART - EGYPT, NORTH AFRICA AND NEAR EAST (Coordinated by: Paolo Medici, Dario Sigari)	view video
14:30	Frederick Hardtke, Wouter Claes: The Belgian-Australian Mission to El Hosh, Egypt
14:50	Dorian Vanhulle: New Perspectives on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Rock-Art in Egypt (c. 4500-2600 BC)
15:10	Julie Villaeys: Graver des serekh : pratiques de définition du pouvoir et de la royauté
15:30	Debate
15:40	Break
16:00	Hamad Mohamed Hamdeen: Rock arts of Wadi Gorgod, in the Western Desert of the Third Cataract (Sudan)
16:20	Uzi Avner: The Symbolic Role of Ibex in Rock Art
16:40	Azzedine Fergui, Ferhany Arezki: The engravings and engravers of Djérat wadi of Tassili n 'Ajjer of Algeria
17:00	Ibrahim Rafiei: Open-air petroglyph site in southern Iran
17:20	Dario Sigari: Video "Rock art in Azerbaijan"
17:40	Debate
18:30	Visit to rock art park by night
30 OCTOBER, SATURDAY
09:00	ROCK ART AND LANDSCAPE (Coordinated by: H Heidrun Stebergløkken e J.Magne Gjerde)	view video
09:10	Heidrun Stebergløkken, Astrid J. Nyland: The temporality and changeability of rock art
09:30	Jan Magne Gjerde: The landscapes of Steinberget – interpreting the temporality of a newly discovered rock painting site, inland Eastern Norway
09:50	Ane Aasmundstad Sommervold: Hidden rock art in Central Norway – communication between people and worlds?
10:10	Brun Wenche: Coastal landscape and shore-bound rock-carvings - a maritime perspective
10:30	Debate
10:40	Break
11:00	Charlotte Damm, Jan Magne Gjerde: Downscaling Cosmological Landscapes: from Early to Mid-Holocene Rock Art in Northern Norway
11:20	Tim Karberg: Spatial patterns of Rock Art at El Rum Oasis, Bayuda/Sudan During the "Wadi Abu Dom Itinerary” survey project in the Bayuda desert in Sudan, several rock art sites were discovered
11:40	Daniel Seuart Castillo Benítez, Maria Susana Barrau: Rock art, environment and cultural landscape in the Amazonas department, Peru
12:00	Debate
12:10	Lunch break
13:40	PROJECT ON REPLICATION OF ROCK ART OF CHATURBHUJNATH NALA IN INDIA (Coordinated by:  Giriraj Kumar, Ram Krishna)	view video
13:50	Kumar Giriraj :Replication of rock paintings at Chaturbhujnath Nala on Bhanpura plateau in Chambal Valley, India, Part 1: The Project Introduction
14:10	Ram Krishna, Hridayshri, Geetanjali and Giriraj Kumar: Project on Replication of rock art of Chaturbhujnath Nala in India, Part 2a: Selection of the Stone Age Compositions and their study
14:30	Geetanjali, Ram Krishna, Hridayshri and Giriraj Kumar: Project on Replication of rock art of Chaturbhujnath Nala in India, Part 2b: Selection of the Chariot Compositions and their study
14:50	Hridayshri, Geetanjali, Ram Krishna and Giriraj Kumar: Project on Replication of rock art of Chaturbhujnath Nala in India, Part 3: Pigment selection and their processing for replication of rock painting compositions: A preliminary study
15:00	Hridayshri, Geetanjali, Ram Krishna and Giriraj Kumar: Project on Replication of rock art of Chaturbhujnath Nala in India, Part 4: Replication of making brush from different organic material for producing rock paintings and their ethnographical study
15:20	Giriraj Kumar, Ram Krishna, Hridayshri and Geetanjali: Project on Replication of rock art of Chaturbhujnath Nala in India, Part 5: Replication of the processes of rock art production and our observations
15:40	Debate
16:10	Break
16:40	NEW RESEARCH AND NEWS IN WORLD ROCK ART (Coordinated by: Mila Simões de Abreu)	view video
16:50	Kayeleigh Sharp, Mark J. Wagner, McCorvie Mary: Stone, Water, People: Networks of Meaning in Illinois Rock Art
17:10	Maria del Pilar Casado: The universal narrative and regional categories in the rock art of northern Mexico
17:30	Mila Simões de Abreu: Pedra do Feitiço: Early documents of rock art in Angola
17:50	Debate
	Maxime Jaffe: Presentation of Docufilm “CAPIVARA: arte rupestre nel sertão del Piauí” (72 min) by Dalton Sala
31 OCTOBER, SUNDAY
09:00	ROCK ART AND STATUE STELE IN VALCAMONICA AND IN THE ALPS (Coordinated by:  Angelo Fossati, Silvia Sandrone)	view video
09:10	Cristina Longhi, Serena Solano: Con i piedi per terra e le mani sulle rocce. Un contesto archeologico per l’arte rupestre della Valcamonica
09:30	Raffaella Poggiani Keller, Paolo Rondini: The cults of the stones: an update on the megalithic sanctuaries of the Valle Camonica
09:50	Stefania Casini, Angelo E. Fossati: Novità e rivisitazioni nelle statue-stele della Valtellina
10:10	Annaluisa Pedrotti, Chistè P.: Le statue stele  del Trentino Alto Adige: lo stato degli studi
10:30	Debate
10:40	Break
10:50	Gianfranco Zidda: Lavori in corso: il completamento dell’area megalitica di Aosta e la presentazione delle stele antropomorfe nella grande sala loro dedicata
11:10	Manuel Mottet: Nouvelles découvertes de dolmens et de stèles gravées à Sion (Valais-Suisse)
11:30	Angelo Ghiretti, Marta Colombo: Il Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi: il nuovo allestimento e gli ultimi rinvenimenti
11:50	Jane Begin: Choix et contraintes géologiques et morphologiques dans la construction d'un site à gravures. Exemple de l'ensemble rupestre du mon Bégo
12:10	Debate
12:20	Break
12:30	Andrea Arcà, Angelo Eugenio Fossati, Francesco Rubat Borel: Pitture rupestri nelle valli dell'Ossola: novità e confronti alla luce degli ultimi studi
12:50	Silvana Gavaldo, Cristina Gastaldi, Paolo Medici: Dare ordine al caos: il caso di studio della roccia 26-27
13:10	Angelo E. Fossati: Le figure di elmi e scudi nell’arte rupestre di Paspardo
13:30	Debate
13:40	Lunch Break
15:10	THE AESTHETIC AND SEMIOTIC RESEARCH OF ROCK ART (Coordinated by: Federico Troletti)	view video
15:20	Federico Troletti: Ideazione ed esecuzione del segno: riflessioni su processo creativo e componente estetico-figurativa tra Preistoria ed età Moderna
15:40	James Dodd: Rock art and language (in a nutshell)
16:00	Maria Susana Barrau, Daniel Seuart Castillo Benítez: The rock art paintings of El Idulo from an aesthetic and semiotic perspective
16:20	Debate
16:30	Break
16:50	Federico Mailland: The image of the ibex through 4000 years of art from the Near East to Central Asia: origin and evolution of a myth
17:10	Uzi Avner: Life and Death in the Rock art of ‘Uvda Valley, Southern Israel
17:30	Marisa Giorgi: Community or representation of self: hands and feet in rock art
17:50	Andrzej Rozwadowski: Using rock art in modern art: a Siberian perspective
18:10	Debate
18:30	Conclusions

 

ROCK-ART, A HUMAN HERITAGE

Proceedings of the XXVIII Valcamonica Symposium, Capo di Ponte (Valcamonica), October 28 to 31, 2021
Atti del XXVI Valcamonica Symposium, Capo di Ponte (Valcamonica), 28 - 31 Ottobre 2021

I Edizione multilingua, Edizioni del Centro (Capo di Ponte)
Paper edition: ISBN 978-88-86621-57-1
E-book edition: ISBN 978-88-86621-58-8
© 2021 by Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici, Capo di Ponte

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Rock art and statue stele in Valcamonica and in the Alps
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Chairpersons: Angelo E. Fossati (Università Cattolica del Sacro Cuore di Milano; Le Orme dell’Uomo, Italy); Silvia Sandrone (Musée départemental des Merveilles,Tende, Alpes-Maritimes)

Cristina Longhi, Serena Solano Con i piedi per terra e le mani sulle rocce. Un contesto archeologico per l’arte rupestre della Valcamonica	.pdf
Raffaella Poggiani Keller, Paolo Rondini The cults of the stones: an update on the megalithic sanctuaries of the Valle Camonica	.pdf
Stefania Casini, Angelo E. Fossati Novità e rivisitazioni nelle statue-stele della Valtellina	.pdf
Annaluisa Pedrotti, Chistè P. Le statue stele  del Trentino Alto Adige: lo stato degli studi	.pdf
Gianfranco Zidda Lavori in corso: il completamento dell’area megalitica di Aosta e la presentazione delle stele antropomorfe nella grande sala loro dedicata	.pdf
Manuel Mottet New discoveries of dolmens and engraved stele in Sion (Valais-Switzerland)	.pdf
Angelo Ghiretti, Marta Colombo Il Museo delle Statue Stele Lunigianesi: il nuovo allestimento e gli ultimi rinvenimenti	.pdf
Jane Begin Choix et contraintes géologiques et morphologiques dans la construction d’un site à gravures. Exemple de l’ensemble rupestre du mont Bégo	.pdf
Andrea Arcà, Angelo Eugenio Fossati, Francesco Rubat Borel Pitture rupestri nelle valli dell’Ossola: novità e confronti alla luce degli ultimi studi	.pdf
Silvana Gavaldo, Cristina Gastaldi, Paolo Medici Dare ordine al caos: il caso di studio della roccia 26-27	.pdf
Angelo E. Fossati Le figure di elmi e scudi nell’arte rupestre di Paspardo	.pdf

New research and news in world rock art: Peninsular Italy and the Mediterranean basin
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Chairperson: Tommaso Mattioli (ArcheoRes – Archaeological Research Group - www.archeores.com)

Tommaso Mattioli The painted post-Palaeolithic rock art of the Italian peninsula south of the Alps. What is the state of the art?	.pdf
Antonino Filippi, Enzo Giuseppe Munna, Piero Ricchiardi, Dario Seglie Pitture rupestri preistoriche nella Sicilia Nord-occidentale (Italia): la Grotta dei Cavalli (S. Vito lo Capo)	.pdf
Guido Palmerini #MaiellaRockArtProject: Nuove ricerche sull’arte rupestre dell’Appennino abruzzese	.pdf
Giorgia Aprile, Alberto Potenza, Ida Tiberi Grotta dei Cervi, un santuario della Preistoria del Mediterraneo	.pdf
Francesca Roncoroni, Vincenzo Ciccardi, Fabrizio Ghio, Dario Sigari, Federico Troletti, Giacomo Vizzino Metodologia di rilievo di scritte e graffiti su superfici intonacate a Villa d’Este, Villa Adriana e al Santuario di Ercole Vincitore a Tivoli	.pdf
Darko Komšo CRORA - Croatian Rock Art, with an Emphasis on the Discoveries of the Schematic Rock Art in Croatia	.pdf
Juan A. Gómez-Barrera, Enrique Baquedano Pinturas rupestres esquemáticas en Valonsadero (Soria, España): entre el “Abrigo de La Lastra” (1966) y el “Abrigo de las Manos” (2021)	.pdf
Claudia Serrano Aranda La consolidación como mecanismo de conservación preventiva del arte rupestre Levantino. El ejemplo del abrigo de Los Toros del Prado del Navazo (Albarracín, Teruel, España)	.pdf
Mila Simões de Abreu The boar prehistoric figures in Trás-os-Montes-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal	.pdf

New research and news in world rock art: Egypt, North Africa and Near East
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Chairpersons: Paolo Medici ( Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici, Italy); Dario Sigari (Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy; Geosciences Center, Coimbra University, Portugal)

Frederick Hardtke, Wouter Claes The Belgian-Australian Mission to El Hosh, Egypt	.pdf
Dorian Vanhulle New Perspectives on Predynastic and Early Dynastic Rock Art in Egypt (c. 4500-2600 BC)	.pdf
Julie Villaeys Graver des serekh : pratiques de définition du pouvoir et de la royauté	.pdf
Hamad Mohamed Hamdeen Rock arts of Wadi Gorgod, in the Western Desert of the Third Cataract (Sudan)	.pdf
Uzi Avner The symbolic role of ibex in rock art	.pdf
Ibrahim Rafiei Open-air petroglyph site in southern Iran	.pdf
Fergui Azzedine Premiers constats d’une mission de recherche aux stations rupestres de l’oued Djérat, Illizi, Sud Algérien	.pdf

New research and news in world rock art: Around world
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Chairperson: Mila Simões de Abreu (Universidade de Trás-os-Montes e Alto Douro, Portugal; CCSP, Italy)

Kayeleigh Sharp, Mark J. Wagner, Mary McCorvie Stone, Water, People: Networks of Meaning in Illinois Rock Art	.pdf
María de Pilar Casado López La narrativa universal y las categorías regionales en el arte rupestre del noreste de México	.pdf
Docufilm "Capivara: arte rupestre no sertao do Piaui" by dalton Sala, presented by Maxime Jaffa

Project on Replication of rock art of Chaturbhujnath Nala in India
COGNITIVE, technological AND CULTURAL INTERFACE OF ROCK ART
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Chairpersons: Giriraj Kumar (Secretary General, Rock Art Society of India); Ram Krishna (Research Scholar, DEI, Dayalbagh, Agra, India)

Giriraj Kumar part 1. Project Introduction	.pdf
Ram Krishna, Hridayshri, Geetanjali, Giriraj Kumar part 2a. Selection of the Stone Age Compositions and their study	.pdf
Geetanjali, Ram Krishna, Hridayshri, Giriraj Kumar part 2b. Selection of the Chariot Compositions and their study	.pdf
Hridayshri, Geetanjali, Ram Krishna, Giriraj Kumar part 3. Pigment selection and their processing for replication of rock painting compositions	.pdf
Hridayshri, Geetanjali, Ram Krishna, Giriraj Kumar part 4. Replication of making brush from different organic material for producing rock paintings and their ethnographical study	.pdf
Giriraj Kumar, Ram Krishna, Hridayshri, Geetanjali PART 5. Replication of the processes of rock art production and our observations	.pdf

Rock art and landscape
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Chairpersons: Heidrun Stebergløkken (NTNU Department of Historical and Classical Studies); Jan Magne Gjerde (NIKU - High North Department, The Fram Centre, Tromsø, Troms, Norway)

Heidrun Stebergløkken, Astrid J. Nyland The temporality and changeability of rock art	.pdf
Jan Magne Gjerde, Henriette Aasen The rock paintings are found on small vertical cliff walls in the area named Steinberget (Stone rock) on the northern part of Espedalsvatnet lake	.pdf
Ane Aasmundstad Sommervold Hidden Messages – Rock Art in Special Landscapes in Central Norway	.pdf
Wenche Brun Coastal landscape and shore-bound rock-carvings a maritime perspective from the south-west coast of Norway	.pdf
Charlotte Damm, Jan Magne Gjerde Downscaling Cosmological Landscapes: from Early to Mid-Holocene Rock Art in Northern Norway	.pdf
Tim Karberg Spatial patterns of Rock Art at El Rum Oasis, Bayuda/Sudan	.pdf
Daniel S. Castillo Benítez, María Susana Barrau Arte rupestre, medio ambiente y paisaje cultural en el departamento Amazonas, Perú. Un estudio de caso: los grabados rupestres de Carachupa	.pdf

Rock art and landscape
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Chairperson: Federico Troletti (Faculdade de Belas-artes da Universidade de Lisboa; MiC – Soprintendenza ABAP Bergamo-Brescia;
CCSP - Capo di Ponte)

Federico Troletti Ideazione ed esecuzione del segno: riflessioni su processo creativo e componente estetico-figurativa tra Preistoria ed età Moderna	.pdf
James Dodd Rock art and language (in a nutshell)	.pdf
María Susana Barrau, Daniel S. Castillo Benítez Una mirada desde la estética y la semiótica a las pinturas rupestres de El Idulo, Lonya Grande, Amazonas, Perú	.pdf
Federico Mailland The image of the ibex through 4000 years of art from the Near East to Central Asia: origin and evolution of a myth	.pdf
Uzi Avner Life and Death in the rock art of ‘Uvda Valley, Southern Israel	.pdf
Marisa Giorgi Community or representation of self: hands and feet in rock art	.pdf
Andrzej Rozwadowski Using rock art in modern art: a Siberian perspective	.pdf
Giulia Mazzolani Artisti allo specchio. RUC e l’esperienza di incontro dell’arte contemporanea con le incisioni rupestri	.pdf

Rock art, didactics and museology
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Chairperson: Tiziana Cittadini (Director, Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici)

Tiziana Cittadini Musealizzazione e fruizione dell’arte rupestre: fra la ricerca del minimo impatto ambientale e nuove tecnologie	.pdf
Gianluca Nicosia APP di facilitazione e informazione alla visita al sito con arte rupestre di Foppe di Nadro	.pdf
Valentina Cane, Maria Giuseppina Ruggiero Mupre and Naquane Park. Forms and educational contents for everyone before and after 2020	.pdf
Johnny Murison Rock art management in Kuku-yalanji country	.pdf
Silvia Sandrone, Maria Gaignon, Sylvain Rouah Le musée départemental des Merveilles à Tende (France, Alpes-Maritmes) entre tradition, innovation et résilience	.pdf

The XXVIII VALCAMONICA SYMPOSIUM 2021, will take place at Capo di Ponte from the 28th to 31st of October 2021, whist observing the current Italian laws for the protection of public health:

- The presentations can take place both in person and online. The in-person presentations will be recorded and streamed on the CCSP YouTube channel and then shared on our Facebook page. All participants will be asked to sign a release form.

- A maximum of 50 people can attend within the conference room at one time, each person must wear a mask, be spaced at least one meter apart and carry a vaccination certificate (green pass or European equivalent). Seating will be pre-assigned. Every day, at the point of entry into the room, our staff will take the temperature of each person (which must not exceed 37 °) and control of vaccination certificates or green pass.

- Due to the stringent rules on food and beverage administration, coffee breaks cannot be provided. During the pauses the participants are invited to leave the room which will then be aired.

- The guided tour, included in the program, is reserved for speakers and their guests

Details on progress:

- Each presentation (in person or online) will last 20 minutes. Presentations can be accompanied by Power Point (or similar software) with texts and images. We recommend that speakers prepare their power points in English. The official languages of the VCS2021 are: Italian, French, English and Spanish.

- Every 3-4 presentations there will be a period for questions (about 10 minutes). The questions will also be transmitted from the online public viewers through messaging on social channels that will be monitored and transmitted by our staff.

- Speakers who choose to deliver their online presentation will be given a link and a password to the zoom platform of the Camuno Centre. The week before the conference tests will be carried out with all the speakers to verify the function of the links.

- All the conferences are avaible in live streaming: from zoom (subscribers only); from the youtube channel and FB page of @centrocamuno (without registration)

Registration
Speaker registration (online or in person, in the hall): € 100,00 for registration by 31 May 2021 (the fee includes: publication of your article in the volume of proceedings, a paper copy of the documents to be collected at the CCSP headquarters, any shipping costs are not included, and a certificate of participation). From the 1st of June 2021 the fee is set at € 150,00;
Poster registration (online or in person, in the hall) € 60,00 (the fee includes: publication of your poster in the volume of the proceedings, pdf of the proceedings of the Valcamonica Symposium, and a certificate of participation). The aim is to print and display the posters in the hall.
Auditor registration (listener online or in the hall, for all sessions): € 30,00 (the fee includes: .pdf of the volume of proceedings, certificate of attendance).
All the sessions of VCS2021 will be accessible free of charge on the social platform (to be defined) or, if possible, in the hall.

The organization of outings or events (dinners, exhibitions or evenings) will be evaluated based on the situation of the pandemic.

YESTERDAY, TODAY, TOMORROW Greetings to the XXVIII Congress of Valcamonica, from Emmanuel Anati

Dear friends and dear colleagues,
Welcome to this 28th Valcamonica symposium. It is a pleasure to meet, even if only on the computer screen! A heartfelt thanks and congratulations to the team of the organizers.
Since the first symposium in 1968, times have changed. The fathers of prehistoric research who attended the first symposia, Paolo Graziosi, André Leroi Gourhan, Antonio Beltran and others, are no longer with us; their memory, their teachings, continue to inspire us. They were innovators of methods and concepts, we remember them with affection.
Already the first symposia have given Valcamonica the role of world leader in the rock art sector and we hope that this privilege and responsibility will be preserved and encouraged by the new generations. The purposes are the same but the atmosphere has changed. We came to get together, to think, talk, experience the emotions of meeting and communication, looking into each other’s eyes, enriching each other in dialogue, in the informal exchange of ideas: to communicate in order to receive and to give. Today many of us are reduced to images on the screen and to words that arrive via the internet. The Corona virus has changed human contacts and we do not know if, once the pandemic is over, they will ever be able to return to the way they were.
The spirit remains alive, the passion for research, and that of maintaining collaborations and friendships. The world has become smaller if we can talk to each other at a distance of thousands of kilometers. But nothing can replace the human warmth of a direct encounter. However, we remain united in our commitment to a fabulous research, that of rediscovering the past, of a multitude of cultures and individuals: all equally the same but each different from the other.
This symposium is a further milestone for the Camuno Center. I remember that when we founded the Center in 1964, friends and colleagues thought it was an adventure with no future, that it could not survive. The Camonica valley wanted this Center and gave it its birth, against the advice of higher bodies and authorities. We remember the commitment and courage of the then mayor of Capo di Ponte, G.B. Belotti, and the then president of the Comunità Montana, the local district, G. Mazzoli. The Centro Camuno for Prehistoric Studies was born with great fear but with determination. With great fear we then organized the first symposium, in 1968: we did not think that others would follow and today we are at the twenty-eighth; and the Center has been in existence for over half a century.
Valcamonica has promoted and hosted this scientific and cultural adventure. Over the years there were moments of enthusiasm and moments of reticence and uncertainty. However, Valcamonica has earned the role of world capital of rock art, discovering its true vocation: to enhance what makes it unique. Thanks to rock art, Valcamonica is rediscovering itself and is being revealed by the whole world. Here the discipline of the scientific study of rock art was born, a research and culture center was born and an important source of new dimensions for the understanding of art and history evolved. It is necessary to maintain this role, on the part of the Centro Camuno and of Valcamonica, with trust, tenacity and also with the will and commitment to always guarantee high quality and high image, without which this institution would not have survived until today.
Rock art is a writing before writing. It is the expression of the thoughts, the vicissitudes, the concerns that produced it. 10,000 years of European history are written on the rocks of Valcamonica: exceptional documentation still largely to be deciphered. Welcome to symposia and researchers! The rocks of Valcamonica contain the largest world archive on the history of the European civilization. But the research goes further. It is also home to research on rock art from other parts of the world, which recount 50,000 years of human adventures. No less important, it is also a meeting place, as is the case with this symposium, for researchers from every continent.
Archaeological research on rock art is changing. Detecting, describing, dating rock art has led to knowing it. Thanks to this demanding work, today we enter a new era of research, to reach, through rock art, the thought, intentions, dilemmas, messages, minds and actions of those who produced it. Rock art becomes the raw material to produce the history of ages so far considered to be prehistoric. It is necessary to read, or to decipher, rock art, this is the target and the challenge of the new archeology. From the level of knowing is necessary to move on to the level of understanding: understanding not only the logic and conjectures of today’s researcher, but also the logic and conjectures of those who produced rock art. Rock art is a great history book, it is the medium that its authors have left us and that we have to decipher.
Dear friends, we are united in the great luck of this common passion for research on rock art, a wonderful world to rediscover: the thoughts, events, adventures of yesterday that are at the sources of today. Understanding the past is the root of understanding ourselves. We are creating the foundations for a new history of humanity. And it does not concern lists of the names of kings or leaders and their victories, they are not chapters of history written by court or regime scribes, they are the expressions of the direct protagonists: individuals and cultures. The new archeology still has a long way to go and together we have a long way ahead of us. We extend our best wishes to our travel companions.
We also extend the hope that this symposium will be a source of inspiration and creativity, collaboration and friendship.
An affectionate greeting,
Emmanuel, October 28, 2021

Contacts
Centro Camuno di Studi Preistorici
via Marconi, 7 - Città della Cultura - 25044 Capo di Ponte (Bs) ITALY
tel +39 0364 42091 fax +39 0364 42572
Email: valcamonica.symposium@ccsp.it