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| | ARCHEOLOGY IN VAL TREBBIA, PIACENZA, ITALY |
 | | In the Trebbia valley the earliest evidence of man's presence consists of stone implements, which are ascribed to the end of the lower Paleolithic, more precisely to the final period of the Acheulean culture, which dates back to about 150,000 years ago. |
 | | During the ancient Neolithic we find in this area several cultural groups, who can be distinguished on the ground of their ceramic production; we could cite among them the group of Fiorano, spread from Romagna to the Enza river, and that of Vhó di Piadena in the middle-western plain. |
 | | At that time the region of Piacenza was a frontier country: it was affected by the Terramare to the East, by less known aspect, characteristics of the north-western Italy, to the South and perhaps to the West. |
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