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31 COM 7B.112 Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (Italy) The World Heritage Committee, 1. Having examined Document WHC-07/31.COM/7B,. 2. Recalling Decision 29 COM 7B.65, adopted at its 29th session (Durban, ...
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 ...
While it's unknown exactly how old the rock art is, similar rock art in Brazil has been dated to around 4,000 years ago. However Pérez-Gómez thinks that the examples in Venezuela may be older.
Similar art in Venezuela was produced in the early part of the Archaic period of South American history (10,000–3,000 B.C.). (American whalers recorded voyages in Australian rock art, study ...
The Prehistoric Picture Project PITOTI: Digital Rock-Art, ... It is an ambitious project focusing on the 3D scanning of rock art in Valcamonica, a UNESCO World Heritage site in the Italian Alps.
The drawings in Valcamonica, near to the central Alps in northern Italy, are believed to be 10,000 years old and are part of a collection of more than 200,000 petroglyphs carved into the rocks of ...
33COM 7B.108 - Rock Drawings in Valcamonica (Italy) (C 94) 2007 31COM 8B.73 - Nomination of natural, mixed and cultural properties to the world heritage list - Rock Drawings of Valcamonica: 2007 31COM ...