Tra il pozzo e la soglia : rites de rupture a Laio, Gimpele (BZ)?

The 2000-2004 excavations, carried out in the long-frequented site of Laion, Gimpele (Bolzano) discovered a settlement occupied since the Middle Bronze Age till the Roman period: Iron Age phases included five buildings, overlapped to each other. One of them was abandoned in LTC-LTD1 period and in the abandonment layers was deposed a dog skeleton, moreover, within a well linked to one of the buildings, was found a human femur. Wide range comparisons seem to suggest that those kinds of archaeological deposits are symbolically linked to the opening/closure of structures life-cycles and the interruption of the spatial and temporal continuum.