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Chronology: III B-C-D period (1/5)
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The next period, called Bronze Age, see the consolidation of the baiting process through the introduction of the metallurgy and the organizing of centres for metal production and trade. In such a contest even more categories of specialists are to be defined inside the community. Now, the meaning of weapons digressed from really cult: whole rocky surface are engraved with raffiguration of daggers, axes, halberds, registered with attention to the particulars and in their real structure .

Dating: 2.500-1.200 B.C.
Corresponding archaeological period: Bronze Age.
Material culture: local facies with association to the Polada's Culture and, later to the Terramare's Culture.
Character of the style and principal represented themes: weapons and objects; maps; the mythologic scenes and the anthropomorphic figures increase toward the end of the period.
Weapons and tools: sub-triangular dagger, war axe, spear
Pets: dog, ox, goat, pig; you are added, during the period, the horse and other ovine.
Important technological and cultural innovations: specialization in the manufacture of metals and in the weaving.
Essential economic activities: trade, manufacture of metal. You has always hunting, fishing, agriculture, breeding.
Social structure: tribe with authoritarian government.
Believes and religion: worship of objects and weapons; abstract concept of divinity. in the late phase, worship of the spirits and the heroes.


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