The Polada culture is the name for a culture of the ancient Bronze Age which spread primarily in the territory of modern-day Lombardy, Veneto and Trentino, characterized by settlements on pile-dwellings.
Molina di Ledro settlement reconstruction, Ledro Museum
Molina di Ledro
Molina di Ledro
Bronze Dagger
The prehistory of Italy began in the Paleolithic period, when species of Homo inhabited the Italian territory for the first time, and ended in the Iron Age, when the first written records appeared in Italy.
Venere di Chiozza, Upper Paleolithic
Serra d'Alto culture ceramic vessel, late 5th millennium BC
Gaudo culture pottery
Anthropomorphic stele from Lunigiana