STEFAN WINGHART, "PRODUCTION, PROCESSING AND DISTRIBUTION. REFLECTIONS ON THE SIGNIFICANCE OF METAL RAW MATERIALS IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF POLITICAL SYSTEMS IN THE SOUTH BAVARIAN FORELAND DURING THE BRONZE AGE"
The article deals with the possibilities of making deductions from archaelogical findings about political processes in the South Bavarian alpine region during the Bronze Age. Whereby the South Bavarian situation is compared with that of regions in Eastern Central Europe and South Eastern Europe, the situation of which is more easily assessable because of its proximity to the early Eastern Mediterranean high cultures. There becomes evident a surprising consonance both in the chronological development of the occupation, as well as in the manner and purpose of the fortifications. Southern Bavaria possesses, contrary to the Danube territories, a further group of sources, namely grave-findings. The essay sets out to trace the connecting links between fortified heights in the Pre-Alps, castle-like sites on the alpine rims, fragmentary metal finds and rich graves with evidence of metal production and its processing. This is achieved above all by means of a metal-analyzing research project dealing with the economic and political dimension of metal distribution during the Bronze Age in the eastern alpine foreland.
BERNARD RÉMY, "IMMIGRATION INTO THE WESTERN ALPS AT THE END OF THE ROMAN REPUBLIC AND IN EARLY IMPERIAL TIMES"
After the Roman conquest very few men and women came into the Western Alps in order to settle there within the framework of an institutionalized immigration or of their own accord. Two Roman colonies were founded: Nyon, by Caesar towards 46-44 B. C., and Aosta, by Augustus, 25 A. D. According to our present state of knowledge individual immigration seems to have been of very little importance, only four immigrants are known: in the Tarentaise region Quintus Caetronius Titullus, a former Italian soldier from the confederation of the Voconti, and a man (Tiberius Claudius Phoebus) from Tiberiopolis in Phrygia with his wife (Pilia? Fida) from Vaison near the Voconti; in Aosta Caius Avilius Caimus, an owner or lessee of mines.
