Carta archeologico-preistorica del Comune di Verona. Elenco dei siti preistorici sulla base delle collezioni del Museo di Storia Naturale e delle ricerche del Nucleo Operativo della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Veneto

The geomorphological characteristic of the territory of the Region of Verona are rather peculiar. The presence, in fact, within a limited area of a plain, river and hill has greatly influenced the human population. The list o prehistoric sites, derived from the collections of the Museo di Storia Naturale, and integrated with the research of the Nucleo Operativo della Soprintendenza Archeologica del Veneto, provides a composite and dynamic scenario of human presence, starting from the lower Palaeolithic, without a break in continuity up until the arrival of the Romans. The Museo di Storia Naturale, with its collections, has always constituted for Verona a center of naturalistic culture where preference is given to the preservation and popularization of the evidences from his territory in order to have a better knowledge of the relationship between man and his environment. In addition the function of the Museum had been to protect the territory in accordance with the Soprintendenza Archeologica del Veneto. In 1979 was established the Nucleo Operativo di Verona which, since then, has been responsible of the control and protection of the archaeological heritage. In order to publish this map use was made of all the available publication and archival material, taking account also of material no longer available but of which documentation exist The material presented comte only in a small part rom systematic excavations while there are many reports of sporadic findings or material surbeyed on the surface which constitute the more consistent part of the sites cited. This results of the investigation show a territory populated from 500,000 years ago up until the 1st century A.D., a quite rare case in the Italian prehistory panorama. This work must be considered a basis for future research which could study more in detail the settlement strategy and spatial distribution. The sites have been placed on a topographic digital base map at 20,000, georeferenced in order to allow the cartographic restitution of various chronological and planimetrical elements.