The archaeological exposure “4000 years in Dos dell’Arca” was inaugurated at the Mupre of Capo di Ponte. The exhibition that can be visited until 22 June 2025 does the Point on the archaeological investigations in progress in Dos dell’Arca, a small hill on the eastern side of the Camonica Valley, who – together with the other three neighboring bumps (piè, Fondo Squaratti and Fourth Dosso) – presents significant traces of human attendance from Neolithic to age of iron and is among the most interesting contexts for archaeological research and rock art of the Camuno area.
The exhibition, the result of the collaboration between the Lombardy National Museums Regional Museums, the Superintendency of Archeology Fine Arts and Landscape for the Provinces of Bergamo and Brescia and the University of Pavia, is a journey to discover relationships and contacts inside and outside The Camonica valley and revolves around the binomial archeology and rock art. And it could not be differently in a territory famous all over the world for its engravings, which became UNESCO World Heritage Site in 1979.

Reported for the first time in 1957 by Gualtiero Laeng, a naturalist who linked his name to discover the Camuna rock art in 1909, Dos dell’Arca was the subject of further archaeological investigations in 1962, with the excavation campaign led by Emmanuel Anati . The finds that emerged in course of the excavations, dated between the Bronze Age and the Iron Age (II-I Millennio BC), have been part of the permanent exposure of the Mupre.

Between 2016 and 2023, new research has been conducted after a ministerial concession directed by the University of Pavia with the “Quattro Dossi Project”, which throw new light on the life of this giving and others were conducted Three with whom he was in relation: Pié, Fondo Squaratti and the fourth dossus.

The main results of these research, exhibited here for the first time, tell, together with the rock engravings, the articulated and complex events of Dos of the Ark from the Neolithic to Romanization, 4000 years of history long.

Carlo Franza