Budapest Régiségei 36. (2002) – In memoriam Rózsa Kalicz-Schreiber (1929-2001)
Aspes, Alessandra - Fasani, Leone - Visentini, Paola: The late neolithic and the early metal age in Northern Italy = Észak-Itália a késői neolitikumban és a korai fémkorban 175-190
ALESSANDRA ASPES - LEONE FASANI - PAOLA VISENTINI style. Elements which recall central European influences, such as handled cups are also present. The presence of the barbed wire ("barbelé") decorated pottery should also be noted. These were recently the subject of a study by Nicolis (1998a), who identified analogies with southern France and with the Slovenian lake settlement environment of Ig. Some copper artefacts such as awls and shaft-hole axes found in Friuli and Trentino may be linked to the latter. In reality the Bell Beaker Culture seems to be established northern Italy in the second half of the III millennium B.C. and thus overlaps, in its initial period, with the end of the Remedello Culture and in its final period, with the first manifestations of the Polada Culture which may be assigned to the early Bronze Age. The phenomenon of the statue stele may also be assigned to the Eneolithic, the anthropomorphic monumental statues found in the Alpine area are subdivided into five groups: the Aosta-Sion group, the Valcamonica and Valtellina group, the Lunigiana group, the Lessinia group and the Brentonico and Atesino. 41 The statue stele reproduce male personages complete with arms (daggers, axes, halberds), female figures with small breasts and with representation of clothing and elements of ornament, and sexless individuals without distinguishing characteristics. This phenomenon which may most probably be considered as an expression evolved from Megalithism, seems to be found within a range of time from 3400/3200 to 2300/2200 B.C. simultaneously with the affirmation of the first documentation of metal working. It is necessary however, to underline the fact that the chronological collocation of this phenomenon is based on stylistic analyses and the typological comparison of the elements represented on the statue. In fact nearly all the artefacts, except for the stele statue recovered at Velturno, do not originate from stratigraphic contexts. 178 «PEDROTTI 1995
