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Museo delle statue stele di Pontremoli.
Site in Toscana Italy


Official website: www.statuestele.org/

(ENG) Pontremoli's museum of Statue stele.
Lunigiana is one of the biggest european site for this kind of "stones". There are 3 kinds of statues here, and some of them are most recent found in Europe. Probably here this kind of culture survived until the iron age.

"A statue menhir is a type of carved standing stone created during the later European Neolithic.
The statues consist of a vertical slab or pillar with a stylised design of a human figure cut into it, sometimes with hints of clothing or weapons visible.
They are most commonly found in south and west France, Corsica, Italy and the Alps. A group from the Iron Age also is known in Liguria.
There are two in Guernsey,[1] La Gran' Mère de Chimqiere, the Grandmother of Chimqiere, a highly-detailed example in the Parish of Saint Martin, and another known simply as La Gran' Mère in the Parish of Castel. The latter is an earlier example found buried underneath the parish church."

(ITA) Le statue stele (o statue-menhir) sono monumenti in pietra, generalmente di roccia arenaria, solitamente di tipo antropomorfo. Gran parte dei ritrovamenti di questi megaliti è avvenuta nelle zone dell'Europa centrale tra il Mediterraneo e le Alpi nelle odierne Francia e Italia. La Lunigiana è uno dei maggiori siti in europa per quanto riguarda questi ritrovamenti. In questo luogo le statue sono state divise in 3 gruppi a seconda dell'epoca. Le più recenti risalgono all'età del ferro. Le popolazioni liguri di queste zone isolate infatti conservarono la cultura megalitica ben più a lungo che nel resto d'europa sviluppando uno stile particolare. Poi, per motivi sconosciuti scomparvero.

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