Earliest Italy

Download or read book Earliest Italy written by Margherita Mussi and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2006-04-11 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book aims to synthesize more than 600,000 years of Italian prehistory, beginning with the Lower Paleolithic and ending with the last hunter-gatherers of the early Holocene. The author treats such issues as the development of social structure, the rise and fall of specific cultural traditions, climatic change, modifications of the landscape, fauna and flora, and environmental adaptation and exploitation and includes detailed descriptions of the most important sites.