Prehistoric Italy

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82 sites, from the first stone tools 1.6 million years ago to the end of the Bronze Age. Click a dot for dates, description and a photo.

Period

BP = years before present. Boundaries are conventional and overlap at the transitions.

Minimum elevation 0 m

Mountain & Alpine sites only

Burials

Multiple-burial sites only

Sites with more than one interment, drawn as diamonds. Only four are Mesolithic — Riparo Blanc, Grotta dell'Uzzo, Grotta della Molara and S'Omu e S'Orku; the rest are Neolithic or later, when collective burial becomes the norm.

Radiocarbon-dated sites (AIDA)

Show AIDA layer

1,039 sites in Italy with published radiocarbon dates, c. 11,000–1,500 BP (Palmisano, AIDA v5). Loaded live from GitHub — needs a connection. This is evidence-based coverage, not curated: it shows where dating work has actually been done.

Basemap

Terrain / relief Topographic Satellite

Coverage stops at 3,000 BP — the Iron Age onward is too dense to map this way. Data compiled from English and Italian Wikipedia and Wikidata (coordinates, images, summaries), with published elevations for high-altitude Alpine sites. Elevations without a published figure are read from a digital terrain model and are approximate. Photos © their authors via Wikimedia Commons.