Prehistory and Prothistory of Upper Tiber Valley (Tuscany). Research, cultural aspects, palaeoenvironment

Abstract

The authors illustrate the issues of thirty years long archaeological and geomorphological studies in the Upper Tiber River basin (Tuscany) by the Universities of Siena and Firenze; the researches have been carried out with a multi-disciplinary approach to study the human and physical characteristics of the territory from the Palaeolithic to the Iron age; cultural aspects and environmental reconstruction have been integrated to provide a synthesis of current knowledge on the pre-protohistory of the Valley.