The extreme scarcity of human remains makes any statement on the physical characteristics of the inhabitants highly speculative. However, by analogy with those from other contemporary lake-settlements, they probably averaged about 5 feet in height.
As with other prehistoric lake-settlements there is a total absence of inhumation in the Ledro Valley, which inclines to the view that lake-dwellers practised the rite of cremation of their dead. Critical opinion varies as to the date of the foundation of the Lake settlement between the upper limits of 2000-1800 BC and the lower limits of 1500-1200 BC.

At the dawn of human history roughly polished stone-chippings or highly polished flints provided materials which combined with wood in a whole range of tools. Although the Ledro settlement in Molina reached its apogee in the Bronze Age, there is a comparative wealth of evidence to show that stone was still used for a wide variety of tasks.
Flint implements are in the majority, small in size and, because of the fissile nature of the stone, confined to cutting tools. Laurel-leaf arrowheads are uncommon, lance-heads scarce and scrapers in the majority. Axes are usually small in size with the longer side curved and the shorter straight. An unique find was an unfinished axe of the 'stirrup' type, with a hole for the handle. Sandstone was used for burnishers and from the fragments found was also hollowed into moulds for bronze clubs.

A neighbouring glacier moraine provided crystal for beads. Volcanic stone, generally granite, was comparatively widely used for hand-mills, clubs and hammers. The amber which regularly recurs on the site was clearly used for personal ornaments. Its provenance is unknown, but taken with other items of evidence would seem to point to a barter-trade with Central European lake-settlements.

Plentiful finds of loom weights, as well as spindles, sometimes decorated with dot-patterns, carding combs made of antler, bone needles and even strips of woven material are all evidence of this activity. The cloth was woven from pure linen thread, the width of the weft varying considerably, and was found in strips, in superimposed squares (perhaps for patchworks) and in rolls, one of which could only have been a girdle.

The most interesting aspect of this find - which may well be unique - is that the outer warps, into which the weft is woven, form a continuous unbroken thread, presupposing the use of small loom. Although there is no proof that it was the case, it is perfectly reasonable to suppose that the cloth was coloured with vegetable dyes, as is the case with the oldest surviving textiles. It is worth adding that the absence of any woollen stuffs is due to the rapidity with which they deteriorate.

A valid assessment of the nutrition and way of life of the villagers may be made solely from the remains of meals. All the animals mentioned above provided basic foodstuffs, of which their brains and marrow were important elements, since long bones and skulls are habitually found split open. Given the abundance of freshwater oyster shells, it is natural to suppose that fish and shellfish provided an especially important part of their diet. This also comprised cooked vegetables and a porridge of cereals and frequently of acorns, too, the remains of such meals often being found encrusted on pots.

Wood was a day-to-day material of prime importance to the ancient peoples of the Alps. Apart from its obvious use for the piles and platforms and for the palisade around the ledro settlement, wood, which the lake-dwellers worked with confident skill, was used to make the majority of household utensils, weapons for war and hunting, canoes, etc. Clearly then, both in range and numbers, wooden objects once far outnumbered those which have survived to be catalogued by the archaeologists. Cutting implements were used to carve the smaller items; the larger were first burned away before being planned or carved.

The commonest objects are bowls, dishes, plates or the handles of unknown implements - most probably used to prepare food. Weapons comprise clubs with spherical heads, throwing sticks and bows. The discovery of a plough with a sharply-pointed coulter and a pole for the beam shows the agricultural use of woos. A dug-out canoe is a class of find which provides ample scope fro creative theorizing.

Animal horn and bone provided implements for a wide range of uses. The tarsal and cubital bones of various animal species were carved into awls and occasionally used to make genuine daggers. Other bone objects included small spatula, needles, decorated bangles, buckles, wrist-guards for bowmen, etc. Antlers of the red deer were used in various ways and their relative plenty is hardly surprising given that they are shed each year by the stags.
They were used as hammers and punches and as the shafts of metal tools, or else were bored to take wooden handles. Their points were used to make patterns on pottery. There are also two combs for carding wool or flax, made of antler. The antlers of the roebuck are far less frequently encountered, but were put to the same uses.

The variety and quantity of pottery at Ledro is truly vast, type, shape and size differing enormously. The coarse clay is broken down by the addition of minerals to produce a paste which is often delicate, smooth and glossy. The colour is a monotonous black, darkish brown or red, except when it has been blanched by overheating when a hut burned down. The pottery varies in size. Of most common occurrence are the large biconical-bodied jars used for storing foodstuffs and decorated, almost without exception, in ribbed patterns either incised into the body of the pot or applied to its surface.

They often encircle or spiral round it in a style which survives to this day. There are many different types of beaker, bowl and small cup. which have often survived intact because of their very smallness. Typologically they differ widely. However, if pottery is classified by number of finds, the order is as follows: loom-weights, spindles, spools, small ladles for bronze-working, platters with slightly raised rims, pipes used as bellows, rounded disks which may have been used as gaming-tokens and small rectangular segments impressed before firing with a dot and cross pattern.

As a simple matter of interest the use should be mentioned of a binding material used to patch vessels or make them watertight, as well as to mend cracks across their surface. The same substance was used as an adhesive to fix flints to wooden handles or ornaments to different mounts. Droplets of this glue, shaped something like pine-cones, were found at different levels and when analysed proved to be gum-terebinth mixed with an unidentified grist.