<P> The earliest Statue menhirs, frequently depicting weapons, were erected by the populations of northern Italy and Sardinia during this period . This sculptural tradition of possible steppe origin (Yamna culture), lasted in some regions well into the Bronze Age and even into the Iron Age . </P> <P> The Beaker culture marks the transition between the Eneolitichic and the early Bronze Age . </P> <P> The Polada Culture (a location near Brescia) was a cultural horizon extended from eastern Lombardy and Veneto to Emilia and Romagna, formed in the first half of 2nd millennium BC perhaps for the arrival of new people from the transalpine regions of Switzerland and Southern Germany . </P> <P> The settlements were usually made up of stilt houses; the economy was characterized by agricultural and pastoral activities, hunting and fishing were also practiced as well as the metallurgy of copper and bronze (axes, daggers, pins etc .). Pottery was coarse and blackish . </P>

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