Today archaeology is not only a science of artefacts and landscapes – it is the proper way to understand and to promote the cultural achievements of our predecessors. Moreover, when presenting them today, we shall not forget that the humans in the past were much more directly articulated to the natural environments they inhabited. It was their technology that they used to survive and to prosper; it was not just their subsistence, but also broader models of economic organizations that connected societies. Their social groupings and later political institutions, but most important their settlement patterns in the landscapes and settlements themselves, were influenced by the natural environment, by the climate.
