Levanzo e dintorni, le incisioni paleolitiche e lo stile “mediterraneo”: una rivisitazione

The Cave of Cala del Genovese on the Levanzo island is a masterpiece of Palaeolithic visual culture in Italy. His engravings, fully described by Paolo Graziosi over seven decades ago, allow for new refl ections that are based primarily on the rich Italian and European iconographic repertoire of recent decades and on new methodological approaches. Th e language adopted in zoomorphic and anthropomorphic fi gurations, called “mediterranean” by Graziosi (1956), has similarities with the contemporary one of continental Europe (“franco-cantabrian” style) from which it originated in the Late Glacial period. Comparisons indicate the existence of reciprocal influences that cross the entire peninsula, which culminate with the importation of the “azilian” style from the Pyrenean nuclear zone.