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Camunian Art and Culture: III B-C-D period (2/5)
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Reconstruction: dealers and craftsmen
of the Bronze Age arrive in the Camonica Valley
During the II Millennium B.C. we watch to gradual consolidation of the innovations introduced with the Calcolithic revolution, first of all the metallurgy. Gradually, we watch the widening of some communities and the union, in a complex gathering, of groups that founded some cultures of general reference: "Urne Field Culture", in the Central Europe or the "Terramare Culture" in the Po Valley, etc.
So in the local diversity we can determine some unifying elements:
the definition of a series of the new activities to economic level that creates variations much more clear into the productive
system, determining the final break of the autochthonal economy and of Neolithic phase, with the specializations of handicraft, breeding and agriculture;
in political level whereas we can watch to achievement of “aristocratic” families with particular powers.


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