In Lagundo, a village near Meran, in South Tyrol, in 1932 and 1942 four mehirs were found in the property of a villager. They are named male and female menhirs or statue-stelae because they represent female and male people. Archaeologists, however, can't say whether they represent real people, mythical ancestors/heroes or real chiefs. In my modest opinion they are real people which became tribal heroes. These are copies of the original menhirs which are in Oetzi's Museum in Bozen/Bolzano. The bigger menhir sports fourteen copper axes and ten copper daggers, typical of the Copper age. A triangular dagger very similar to these ones was carved on a menhir in Stonehenge. The male menhir also shows a striped mantle and a belt made of strings with copper tube beads. Under the belt there is the drawing of a chariot and two daggers. It looks as if the menhir shows the man's possessions and trophies, such as the weapons he got killing important chiefs. Oetzi's axe was more or less identical to those carved on the menhir, hence confrimg that these axes were mostly a prestige item denoting status. The female menhir shows a kind of crown and earrings a mantle and what has been interpreted as a kind of dremm or a necklace covering the shoulders and the breasts. I saw a gold cape that may look like this in stone at the Archaeological Museum of Cardiff, Wales. Women of leading lineages had rich graves here, especially if they belonged to mining communities. For those who want to know more on the Menhirs of Lagundo: http://www.iceman.it/en/themenhir About Oetzi's axe: http://www.iceman.it/en/node/277 Many may be interested in Oetzi's health and his DNA here: http://www.nature.com/news/iceman-s-dna-reveals-health-risks-and-relations-1.10130