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Article: Lynne Bevan. Worshippers and Warriors: reconstructing gender relations in the prehistoric rock art of Naquane National Park, Valcamonica, Brescia, northern Italy.(Book review)
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- March 1, 2008
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LYNNE BEVAN. Worshippers and Warriors: reconstructing gender relations in the prehistoric rock art of Naquane National Park, Valcamonica, Brescia, northern Italy (British Archaeological Reports International Series 1485). xv+ 192 pages, 187 illustrations, 10 tables. 2006. Oxford: Archaeopress; 1-84171-920X paperback 34 [pounds sterling].
The lower Alpine valley of Valcamonica, and its immediate surroundings, is home to an estimated excess of 300 000 prehistoric rock art motifs, about 80 per cent of which date from the Iron Age. The motifs range in subject matter from the entirely abstract to hunting scenes, agricultural depictions and warriors in combat or stages ...