Val Camonica Translations

Val Camonica Translations deciphers inscriptions and petroglyphs from ten sites in Val Camonica that were written in a script called Old European. Each translation tells a story of lives and loves, delights and deaths of fiercely independent farmers and warriors from the Bronze Age and Iron Age. It presents a new way of reading petroglyphs as rebuses, composed of many letters artfully arranged to form a recognizable image. Amazingly, this vocabulary applies to petroglyph rebuses...
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Val Camonica Translations deciphers inscriptions and petroglyphs from ten sites in Val Camonica that were written in a script called Old European. Each translation tells a story of lives and loves, delights and deaths of fiercely independent farmers and warriors from the Bronze Age and Iron Age. It presents a new way of reading petroglyphs as rebuses, composed of many letters artfully arranged to form a recognizable image. Amazingly, this vocabulary applies to petroglyph rebuses throughout the world.Visitors can match rock art in Val Camonica with their translations to understand how and why they were written.Students and linguists can learn how to decipher other inscriptions in Val Camonica, whose estimated 300,000 petroglyphs are mostly writing. Historians can analyze accounts of Bronze Age and Iron Age inhabitants of Italy.General readers can discover how their ancestors once wrote, because identical inscriptions occur from the Ice Age of Europe, Asia and America, such as in the caves of Lascaux and Altamira.