Prehistoric Italy
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The prehistory of Italy began in the Paleolithic period, when members of the genus Homo first inhabited what is now modern Italian territory, and ended in the Iron Age, when the first written records
Venere di Chiozza, Upper Paleolithic
Serra d'Alto culture ceramic vessel, late 5th millennium BC
Gaudo culture pottery
Anthropomorphic stele from Lunigiana, Museo delle statue stele Lunigianesi
Bell Beaker culture
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The Bell Beaker culture, also known as the Bell Beaker complex or Bell Beaker phenomenon, is an archaeological culture named after the inverted-bell beaker drinking vessel used at the beginning of the
Prehistoric Italy
…This sculptural tradition of possible steppe origin (Yamna culture), lasted in some regions well into the Bronze Age and even into the Iron Age. The Bell Beaker culture marks the transition between the Eneolithic and the early Bronze Age. The Italian Bronze Age is conditionally divided into four periods…
Distribution of the area of influence of the Bell Beaker culture
Bell Beaker artefacts from Spain: ceramics, metal daggers, axe and javelin points, stone wristguards and arrowheads
Reconstruction of a Bell Beaker burial, Spain.
Corded Ware, Yamnaya and Sintashta cultures