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The Museo di Preistoria e Protostoria della Valle del Fiume Fiora, in Manciano, Grosseto, was born in 1985 as an endeavor to illustrate the long story preceding the appearance of Etruscan culture in the southern part of the province of Grosseto. The museum is accomodated in a building that dates back to the early 1800s and stands at the highest point of the town, next to La Rocca Aldobrandesca. The landscape we take in from the windows as we tour is an integral part of the museum itinerary, since in the surrounding areas it is possible to spot many of the archeological sites whose items are showcased in the exposition.

The Museo di Preistoria e Protostoria della Valle del Fiume Fiora, in Manciano, Grosseto, was born in 1985 as an endeavor to illustrate the long story preceding the appearance of Etruscan culture in the southern part of the province of Grosseto. The museum is accomodated in a building that dates back to the early 1800s and stands at the highest point of the town, next to La Rocca Aldobrandesca. The landscape we take in from the windows as we tour is an integral part of the museum itinerary, since in the surrounding areas it is possible to spot many of the archeological sites whose items are showcased in the exposition. The museum’s internal itinerary winds through six rooms with audiovisual and multimedia setups which span Prehistory from the Paleolithic, more than 500,000 years ago, until the beginning of the Iron Age (IX Century BC). Among the most noteworthy items we find Paleolithic stone utensils from Montauto, dating back about 500,000 years, actually some of the most ancient traces of human presence in Tuscany, as well as remains of that period’s fauna: bones and teeth belonging to elephants, hyenas and rhinos, which bear evidence of an environment that differed profoundly from the one we have. Other relevant items include the treasures from the artificial grotta-shaped tombs of the Copper Age (between 3500 and 2000 BC, approximately), mainly the characteristic flask shaped vases and flint arrowheads, and in the case of more prestigious tombs, copper axes. The Bronze Age (2000-1000 BC, approximately) is not only represented by a great number of bronze objects, from deposits made by itinerant metalworkers along the pathways of that time, but also from incinerating burials and everyday objects which could be placed at the final stages of this period, a fundamental moment of the formation of Etruscan culture. Material from the settlement of Scarceta, in which there’s documented proof of numerous ancient craft activities, among which artistic bronze, bone and horn craftsmanship.

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