Peanuts from Italy starts today a new topic that will keep you company during the next few weeks : the History of Italy. Much of the information that you will read are from Wikipedia and will be supplemented by other sources depending on the historical period narrated . We begin as you would expect from prehistoric times . The population of the Italian territory dates back to prehistoric times, the era of which were found important archaeological sites . Italy has been inhabited at least since the Paleolithic Age. Among the most interesting Italian archaeological sites dating from the Palaeolithic , is reminiscent of Arene Candide , at Albenga , Monte Poggiolo , near Forli , at Isernia Isernia La Pineta , one of the oldest sites where man has used fire , and dellAddaura the Cave , near Palermo , in which there is a vast and rich complex engravings, dating from the Mesolithic and the final Epigravettian , depicting humans and animals . Among the peoples who settled in the Neolithic , when man became a hunter also shepherd and farmer , remember Camuni ( in Valcamonica ) . Camuni were a people of ancient Italy allocated during the Iron Age (I millennium BC) in Valcamonica , are also identified with the Latin name Camunni , given to them by the authors of the first century , or as the ancient Camuni , to distinguish them from the current inhabitants of the valley . Among the foremost manufacturers of rock art in Europe , their name is linked to the famous Rock engravings of Valcamonica , which are - given the poverty of archaeological finds as a necropolis , furnishings or settlements - the main cultural testimony of these people. People of obscure origin , it is located in a region , Valcamonica , already marked by an ancient cultural tradition , dating from the Neolithic period . I Camuni - Καμοῦνοι in greek , Camunni in Latin - are remembered by the classical historical sources from the first century BC, the previous era , corresponding in Valcamonica the Iron Age ( from the twelfth century BC until the Romanization ) is especially evidenced by the vast corpus consists of hundreds of thousands of petroglyphs . Submitted to Rome at the beginning of the first century AD, the Camuni were gradually introduced in the political and social structures of the Roman Empire while retaining margins of self-government ( the Res Publica Camunnorum ) , since the second half of the century they obtained Roman citizenship , then undergoing - like all the peoples of the Cisalpine Gaul - a rapid process of romanization both linguistic and cultural , and religious . 1 - CONTINUE
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