An Alpine valley in northwest Italy, remarkable for the abundance of rock carvings found on rock faces throughout the valley. The carvings, thought to date from the Copper Age to post-Roman times, are often superimposed, producing complicated palimpsests, often difficult to disentangle. Scenes include human and animal figures, sometimes engaged in everyday activities such as ploughing or in apparently ritual activities; weapons and abstract symbols also occur commonly.
The Macmillan dictionary of archaeology, Ruth D. Whitehouse, 1983Copied