The Camonica Valley is famous all over the world for its extraordinary complex of representations engraved on the rocks, mostly dating back to Prehistory, inscribed in 1979, as the first Italian site, in the prestigious UNESCO World Heritage List.
If the vast public is therefore aware of the iconographic heritage of these ancient populations, less well known are the aspects of their daily life, which have emerged only in the last 30 years thanks to numerous interventions of preventive archaeology and research conducted in the Valley.
To these communities, which from the Iron Age will be known as Camunni, are referable various settlements, workplaces, places of worship and burials.
The National Museum of Prehistory, housed in the ancient building of Villa Agostani in the historical centre of Capo di Ponte, integrates, with the exhibition of the finds, the heritage of images engraved on the rocks and recomposes, in an inseparable whole, the identity expression of the Camonica Valley.
