The beginnings of the decay of the Camunian iconography took place around
the II Century B.C.: the engravings loose their dynamism and become clumsy
in the stereotyped repetition of duels and fighting.
This phase of decay
could have been determined, exactly, by the presence, in the Po Valley, of
the Roman civilization. The Romans conquer the Camonica Valley during
16 B.C.: the mentality and the roman life, with its organization, economy
and religion permeated the world of the valley, that was already going
through a moment of decadence.
The old traditions were abandoned and
only during the Middle Age sporadic evidences reappear, in which the rock
art engravings are connected to the new religious themes of Christianity.
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