Rock Art Research

The cave paintings of the Grotta dei Cavalli have been known since the 1980s thanks to the study of Sebastiano Tusa, who attributed the images to the Eneolithic period. In 2019, under the direction of the Superintendency of Trapani and with the participation of the CeSMAP of Pinerolo, as well as of local volunteer archaeologists together with students from the Technical Institute ‘G. Caruso’ of Alcamo, a project was started investigating this archaeological site scientifically and with educational outcomes in mind. The report focuses on the main results of this enquiry in the hope that investigations at that site will be resumed after the COVID pandemic. A 3D survey of Grotta dei Cavalli was carried out with a laser scanner. The photographic recording and reworking with D-Stretch software to highlight complex overlapping pictorial layers of figures have been studied. Today these results allow us to give a new reading of the cave’s graphic repertoire.