The EU-funded MOLA project: Mobility and Life histories in the Alps - Understanding prehistoric social strategies in mountain environment.

The eastern Italian Alps are home to several hundred archaeological sites dating back to the Neolithic, the Chalcolithic, and the Bronze Age. Prehistoric burials in this region off er a unique source of information about human mobility and life histories in a mountain environment. In this context, the EU-funded MOLA project integrates Alpine landscape archaeology with advanced bioarchaeology and spatial modelling to understand how social strategies infl uenced human mobility and life histories from the 5th to the 2nd millennium BC in a mountain environment. The project focuses on the eastern Italian Alps, combining the analysis of prehistoric cremated and inhumed human remains with data from landscape archaeology of the uplands.