The Copper Age
3,400 - 2,300 B.C.
The Copper Age (Eneolithic) is technologically characterized by the production of flint blades with foliated retouching and the introduction of metallurgy.
Flint daggers with foliated retouching, pedunculated arrowheads, and a copper axe fragment have been found in the Fimon Valleys.
Funerary objects have been found in caves used as burial grounds: copper axes from the Bocca Lorenza Cave (Santorso); ornamental objects, an arrowhead, and a flint dagger blade from the Grottina dei Covoloni del Broion (Longare).
An exceptional obsidian foliated point from the Grotta della Guerra (Lumignano) documents widespread economic exchanges.
Few but significant finds have been unearthed from the megalithic funerary and cult area of Sovizzo, consisting of a double ritual corridor and earth and stone tumulus tombs of an emerging family group.
Of particular note are the foliate retouched arrowheads from the earth tumulus and tools and arrowheads from the eastern sector.
