Catalogue of Italian Fossil Human Remains from the Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic

The Catalogue of Italian Fossil Human Remains from Palaeolithic to the Mesolithic was developed within the framework of Targeted Project - Cultural Heritage of the Italian National Research Council. Information of the most diverse nature (anthropological, geo-chronological, paleo-environmental) about sites and human remains is gathered together, creating a source of knowledge that becomes essential for the valorisation and conservation of such “Cultural Assets”. Seventy-eight sites studied from 1860 to the present day are considered (see map on the right), including 258 human remains covering a period of more than 800.000 years. This considerable information should make the Catalogue a useful tool to help understand how ancient human beings distributed in the territory and geo-climatic changes influenced peopling processes.