Two events at the ‘L'Uomo e i Coltivi’ Visitor Centre in Campiglia Soana.
• 4pm: Fossils, what a passion!, educational workshop with the Bioma Association to discover the work of a palaeontologist
• 5pm: Geographical diffusion and human evolution, meeting with Giorgio Manzi from La Sapienza University in Rome
Since their appearance on the evolutionary scene in Africa over 2 million years ago, the various species of the genus Homo have spread several times from Africa to the territories of Eurasia; only recently has our species (Homo sapiens) reached Australia and the Americas. Other major dispersals took place a few millennia ago, with the transition from the subsistence economy of hunter-gatherers to food production through livestock breeding and land cultivation. In all these cases, the phenomenon had a wide geographical scope and involved several generations. Therefore, the most appropriate term to use is “spread” (or expansion of range): a phenomenon that should be understood as the sum of many local migrations.