The Copper Age
3,400 - 2,300 B.C.
The Copper Age (Eneolithic) stands out on a technological level for the production of retouched-flake blades in flint and for the introduction of metallurgy.
Daggers with retouched-flake blades, arrowheads with stems and a fragment of copper axe all come from the Fimon Valleys.
Grottoes used as burial grounds have yielded objects used in funeral rites: copper axes from the Bocca Lorenza Cavern (Santorso); ornamental objects, an arrowhead and a dagger blade in flint from the small Covolini grotto in Broion (Longare).
An exceptional flaked tip in obsidian from the “della Guerra” Grotto in Lumignano is evidence of widespread economic trading.
A small number of important Megalithic-type finds have been discovered in the funeral and cult area in Sovizzo, made up of a ritual double corridor and of mound tombs in earth and in stone of an emerging family group.
Special mention must be made of retouched-flake arrowheads from earth mounds and tools and arrowheads from the sector to the east.
