Arco stelae

The Arco Stelae consist of six Copper Age statue menhirs which were discovered in the vicinity of Arco, Trentino, in 1989.^[1] They are similar in style to other anthropomorphic stelae made across Europe between the 4th and 3rd millennium BCE.^[2]

Arco I

Arco I

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Arco I, discovered in 1989, is 215 cm high limestone stela.^[1] It depicts a heavily-armed, apparently male figure with seven daggers, three axes, three halberds and an ornamental necklace.^[3][4]

References

1. Pedrotti, Annaluisa (1995). "Le statue-stele e le stele antropomorfe del trentino Alto Adige e del Veneto occidentale: gruppo atesino, gruppo di Brentonico, gruppo della Lessinia". Notizie Archeologiche Bergomensi (in Italian). 3: 259–280.
2. Vierzig, Angelika (2020). "Anthropomorphic Stelae of the 4th and 3rd Millennia Between the Caucasus and the Atlantic Ocean". Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society. 86: 111–137. doi:10.1017/ppr.2020.12. ISSN 0079-497X. S2CID 229332275.
3. Harris, Susanna; Hofmann, Kerstin P. (January 2014). "From Stones to Gendered Bodies: Regional Differences in the Production of the Body and Gender on the Copper Age Statue-Menhirs of Northern Italy and the Swiss Valais". European Journal of Archaeology. 17 (2): 264–285. doi:10.1179/1461957114Y.0000000054. ISSN 1461-9571. S2CID 161134630.
4. Priuli, Ausilio (2023), Chao, Hing; Jaquet, Daniel; Kim, Loretta (eds.), "Arms and the Armed: The Evocative Ritual Language in Val Camonica Rock Art", Martial Culture and Historical Martial Arts in Europe and Asia: A Multi-perspective View on Sword Culture, Martial Studies, vol. 2, Singapore: Springer Nature, pp. 3–43, doi:10.1007/978-981-19-2037-0_1, ISBN 978-981-19-2037-0

External links

• Media related to Statue stele di Arco at Wikimedia Commons
• Arco I, The Stelae-Statues of Lunigiana