Reconstruction:
Calcolithic artists
engrave a stele statue
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To understand the motivations of changes intervened at the end of IV millennium
B.C. into the Camunian rock art, it is necessary to look into the European
area. This is a moment of extreme instability for the continent: deep
changes operated from the SouthWest regions of Europe, transformations
that during some decades bring to define of a "Proto-Indo-European culture",
and to propagation of technologic innovations. This phenomenon had an
initial matrix in the half nomad Caucasian groups in possession of a
series of acquisitions (not directly elaborated) like
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the basis of metallurgy and hierarchical
and warlike social structure.
The dynamics and forms through which this ideology developed and permeated
or was superimposed to the Neolithic cultures, that occupied a large part
of Europe, are not clear: we can only establish that during the IV-III
Millennia B.C. to people installed between Southern Ural mountains
and Iberian peninsula, arrive a series of "technologic innovations",
first of all the metallurgy and the cart, accompanied by changes in economic,
cultural and social structures.
In the Northern Italy these innovations arrived probably in different
moments to start from the end of the IV millennium B.C. and determined
changes clearly readable in the rock art: on monumental compositions and
on stele statue of this period we can find the basis symbols of the
Indo-European culture and of the typical objects of, above-mentioned,
technologic revolution.
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