The peopling of the Marche Apennine during the Late-Glacial

Circumstances surrounding the peopling of the Marche region in ecological and anthropic terms and evolution of a late-glacial settlement system. Data about settlement system remain, in the present state of knowledge, scarcely represented, mostly due to the lack of specific surveys and unsufficient palaeoecological, archaeozoological and techno-economical data. The multifaced landscape of the Marche Appennine, made of wide valley plains, narrow calcareous gorges, high crests and low wet enviroments, reveals the traces of Epigravettian frequentation between the Last Glacial Maximum and the end of the Late Glacial. As far as the first human occupation of the Eastern side of the Appennine chain is concerned, more exactly, the fluvial terraces of the valley mouthes, available data is not sufficient in order to make hypotheses about the camp function and the way this camps worked, nor to test if they were ephemeral occupations ( ex. Grotta del Vento-Grotta del Fiume) or testify of a range of activities such as lithic implements production (ex. Baracche) along with other subsistence activities. On the other hand, in The Late Glacial interstadial we observe a development in the settlement system, which, even if documented only in the Esino basin, it could reveal logistically complementary settlements of the principal