THE METAL AGES.

In this part corresponding to the Metal Ages, a worthy representation of rich funeral equipments is placed. They date from the Eneolithic (or Copper Age) to the Bronze and Iron Ages. These equipments come from graves of Laterza town and the Nisco cave (in the territory of Cassano Murge). In these places metal arms, several semi-precious stone embellishments, in bone and amber, many vases mostly decorated were retrieved. The globular bone find is extremely interesting, it comes from the funeral equipments of Casal Sabini grave, in the territory of Altamura (it goes back to 1800 B.C.). It is a richly decorated animal bone, of eastern origin, almost identical to another one found in the Troy excavations. This is a valid evidence of those relations between the East and the West, already existing at the beginnings of the second millennium.