Arco stelae

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

Arco I

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Arco I, discovered in 1989, is 2.15 meter high limestone stela. It depicts a heavily armed, apparently male figure with seven daggers, three axes, three halberds, and an ornamental necklace.

References

1 2 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.
↑ 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.
↑ 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.
↑ Priuli, Ausilio (2023), "Arms and the Armed: The Evocative Ritual Language in Val Camonica Rock Art", in Chao, Hing; Jaquet, Daniel; Kim, Loretta (eds.), 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

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

[:0-1] 1 2 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), "Arms and the Armed: The Evocative Ritual Language in Val Camonica Rock Art", in Chao, Hing; Jaquet, Daniel; Kim, Loretta (eds.), 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