Monte Beigua
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| height | 1286 m slm | |
| location | Savona Province , Italy | |
| Mountains | Ligurian Apennines | |
| Coordinates | 44 ° 26 '0 " N , 8 ° 33' 55" E | |
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The Monte Beigua is a mountain in the Ligurian Apennines in Italy . The 1286 meter high ridge separates the Ligurian coast from the Po plain . The summit of the mountain is the highest of the so-called Beigua mountain group , to which the nearby Monte Grosso (1265 meters), the Monte Ermetta (1267 meters) and the Bric Veciri (1263 meters) belong.
At Monte Beigua, Pierre Pétrequin from the Université de Franche-Comté in Besançon and his wife Anne-Marie discovered an early Neolithic mining site for the very rare mineral jadeite . From the mineral, which was usually only mined on Monte Viso (northwest in the Cottian Alps), splendid axes and hatchets were made, which were traded across large parts of Europe.
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- ↑ P. Pétrequin, AM Pétrequin, et al .: Beigua, Monviso e Valais. All'origine delle grandi asce levigate di origine alpina in Europa occidentale durante il V millenio. In: Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche LV, 2005, pp. 265–322.
- ↑ Pierre Petrequin, Serge Cassen, Michel Errera, Lutz Klassen, Alison Sheridan; Anne-Marie Petrequin (Red.): Jade. Grandes haches alpines du Neolithique europeen. V e et IV e millenaires av. J.-C. (= Les Cahiers de la MSHE Ledoux Volume 17; Presses Universitaires de Franche-Comte et Center de Recherche Archeologique de la Vallee de lAin Volume 1224), Besançon 2012, ISBN 978-2-84867-412-4 ( review, B. Ramminger , in Germania 95 , German, pdf, ub.uni-heidelberg.de).