How did the Rhaetian people live during the last centuries B.C., the Iron Age? From excavations carried out, we can identify a farming culture that had cult sites on the tops of mountains and which used an alphabet that had its roots in Etruscan culture.

The oldest written document found in the Ladin valleys to date, a small inscribed stone stele, was found at 2100 metres on Mont de Pore, between Andraz and Col de Santa Lizia/Colle Santa Lucia. There is still a great deal of controversy about the meaning of the inscriptions on this isolated find.