5th millennium BCE - 4686 BCE - 4527 BCE

Unità di misura: UNR (; Misure mancanti: MNR

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The burial was of an adult male aged around sixty. The elderly individual shows loss of most of his teeth and signs of alveolar resorption. The subject shows: a left parietal depression with capillary fracture; possible trauma and attempted trepanation; a fractured right clavicle with pseudoarthrosis; osteophytic beaks on the thoracic vertebrae. In addition to the skeleton, only a green stone axe, heavily worn from use, has survived, which was probably a personal tool of the deceased. The axe was a common tool among Neolithic populations and is considered a male symbol because it has only been found in the burials of men in this and other prehistoric cultures. The artefact comes from the Caverna della Pollera in Finale Ligure (SV).