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Monte Poggiolo is a hill near
Forlì Forlì ( , ; rgn, Furlè ; la, Forum Livii) is a '' comune'' (municipality) and city in Emilia-Romagna, Northern Italy, and is the capital of the province of Forlì-Cesena. It is the central city of Romagna. The city is situated along the V ...
,
Italy Italy ( it, Italia ), officially the Italian Republic, ) or the Republic of Italy, is a country in Southern Europe. It is located in the middle of the Mediterranean Sea, and its territory largely coincides with the homonymous geographical ...
in the
Emilia-Romagna egl, Emigliàn (man) egl, Emiglièna (woman) rgn, Rumagnòl (man) rgn, Rumagnòla (woman) it, Emiliano (man) it, Emiliana (woman) or it, Romagnolo (man) it, Romagnola (woman) , population_note = , population_blank1_title ...
area. The hill overlooks the Montone River valley from an elevation of 212 m. At Monte Poggiolo is a Florentine castle. The fort was designed by
Giuliano da Maiano Giuliano da Maiano (1432–1490) was an Italian architect, intarsia-worker, and sculptor, the elder brother of Benedetto da Maiano, with whom he often collaborated. Biography He was born in the village of Maiano, near Fiesole, where his fa ...
and built in 1471 in the form of a rhombus with four towers. Thousands of
Paleolithic The Paleolithic or Palaeolithic (), also called the Old Stone Age (from Greek: παλαιός ''palaios'', "old" and λίθος ''lithos'', "stone"), is a period in human prehistory that is distinguished by the original development of stone to ...
-era artifacts have been recovered from the nearby area of ''Ca’ Belvedere'' (for ''Casa Belvedere'') and dated to around 850,000 years before the present, making them the oldest evidence of
human Humans (''Homo sapiens'') are the most abundant and widespread species of primate, characterized by bipedalism and exceptional cognitive skills due to a large and complex brain. This has enabled the development of advanced tools, culture, ...
habitation in Italy.Muttoni, G. et al., 2011
First dated human occupation of Italy at ~ 0.85 Ma during the late Early Pleistocene climate transition.
''Earth and Planetary Science Letters'', 307(3-4), pp.241-252.


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