Palaeoenvironment, Settlement, and Land Use in the Late Neolithic—Bronze Age Site of Colombare di Negrar di Valpolicella (N Italy, On-Site)

Palynological and archaeobotanical analyses have been carried out as part of the interdisciplinary project Colombare di Negrar, a prehistoric site in Lessini Mountains (northern Italy). The palaeoenvironmental economic reconstruction from Late Neolithic to beginning Early Bronze Age was based on 16 pollen samples three macroremains taken two contiguous trenches. landscape shows presence natural clearings wood. Forest cover characterised by oak wood, with Ulmus Tilia. intermediate morphology size exine Tilia cordata/platyphyllos may be regarded first palynological evidence lime hybrids palaeorecords. Hygrophilous trees Vitis vinifera testify riparian forests moist soils. Among supplying fruits, addition grapevine, hazelnut (Corylus avellana) walnut (Juglans regia) were present. A mixed economy animal breeding cultivation cereals (Hordeum vulgare, Triticum monococcum, T. dicoccum, timopheevii) emerged data. combined analysis plant suggests that different activities simultaneously relationship between resources socio-economic cultural evolution territory.