I’m going to show you the evolution of human groups’ settlements during Paleolithic.
Lower Paleolithic is characterized by: the construction of small huts, the achievements of the fire and the use of the first flint tools through flaking technique.

Medium Paleolithic instead, is characterized by hunting activities while the achievements of Homo sapiens belongs to the Upper Paleolithic period. Examples of this achievements are the working of stone and bone which are becoming more and more complex and the first artistic representations engraved or painted on the caves’ walls.

In this territory there are important witnesses such as the archaeological site of Grotta all’Onda (Camaiore, Lucca), which testify the attendance of a Medium and Upper Paleolithic cave, and its flint tools in the area that nowadays is submerged from Massaciuccoli lake (Massarosa, Lucca).

Here you can touch the working tools and the artistic products of this period, from flaking technique, to the small bow used to light up the fire. Here there are first examples of bone, horn and soapstone sculptures.

Here you can observe the reconstruction of Chauvet cave (Ardéche, France), the most ancient painted cave, and the reconstruction of Paglicci cave’s guy with a rich funerary kit.

You can also listen to the sound of the first musical instruments.