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Summary
The history of Italy begins with the arrival of the first
hominins 850,000 years ago at Monte Poggiolo. Italy shows
evidence of habitation by anatomically modern humans beginning
about 43,000 years ago. It is reached by the Neolithic as early
as 6000–5500 BC Cardium Pottery and Impressed ware. The
Italian Bronze Age begins around 1500 BC, likely corresponding
to the arrival of Indo-European speakers whose descendants
would become the Italic peoples of the Iron Age; alongside the
early Italic cultures, however, the Etruscan civilization in
central Italy, Celts in northern Italy and Greek colonies in
the south flourished during 8th to 5th centuries BC. **