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Camunian Art and Culture:
Post Camunian period - the Middle Ages (6/7)
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In Vitt
Rock 7: medieval keys
 These symbols testimony forms of Christian re-sacralization and exorcism of pagan rites, but without the exclusion of a debased form of heterodox execution or with magical background, outside of Christian mentality.
The rites and the engraved activity lasted during all the Middle Ages, even if on some rocks and with discontinuity, working out an iconography connected with the world of Christianity.
The last rock engravings ascend at the end of the 1800, work of local shepherds, figures disconnected with the initial cultural contest.
The ancient engraved areas were abandoned and gradually covered with ground, even if they remained in the local collective memory.
Only at the beginning of the 1900 it was understood the ancientness and importance of these testimonies: Laeng and then Süss in many areas of the Camonica Valley marked their presences.


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