cippo in ricordo di Cesare Cecchini

The Arco Stelae are six Copper Age statue menhirs discovered near Arco in Trentino in 1989. They are similar in style to other anthropomorphic steles made across Europe between the fourth and third millennia BCE. Arco I, discovered in 1989, is a limestone stele 2.15 metres high that shows a heavily armed, apparently male figure with seven daggers, three axes, three halberds and an ornamental necklace. Statue menhirs are carved standing stones of the later European Neolithic, in which a vertical slab or pillar has a stylised human figure cut into it, sometimes with hints of clothing or weapons, and they are most common in southern and western France, Catalonia, Corsica, Sardinia, Italy and the Alps. The full article, “Italian statue stelae and stones”, follows below under About this kind of monument.

This site is undated in the open records the Atlas draws on, and the Atlas does not guess a date for it. Where a regional range exists for this kind of monument it is given in the notes on this page, as background and not as a date for this site.