"Shinta and the Wolf" (available in Italian)

This story is set in the Colbricon lakes, in the Lagorai region. Here, around 11,000 years ago, Mesolithic hunters camped during the summer to locate prey, process the hides, and craft weapons and tools. Crescent- and triangular-shaped flint fragments were inserted into arrow shafts to make them more effective. Agriculture and livestock farming were still unknown, but we know that the wolf was the first animal domesticated by humans. The first contact between humans and wolves dates back to the end of the last Ice Age.

Texts by Giorgia Cappelletti

Illustrations by Erica Patauner

MUSE Publishing Project, Science Museum