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The transition from hunter-gatherer economies to Neolithic productive ones is a crucial moment that sees profound changes in the social, ideological and productive structures, differentiated in the various European regions in relation to the methods of integration between traditions and innovations. The Florentine area, within the Tuscan sector and central Italy, is not exempt from these changes. The archaeological documentation, from a multidisciplinary perspective that combines the most strictly historical aspects with those linked to the man/environment relationship, highlights a scenario in which the local Mesolithic traditions are grafted and merged with the technological and productive innovations brought by foreign groups. As in other Tuscan areas, the specific identities remain partly recognizable within a physiognomy that marks the beginning of a new original path.

The University of Florence has always maintained very close relationships with the city's cultural institutions: libraries, museums, archives, research institutes. These relationships have been particularly significant with regards to the artistic heritage, even if sometimes the large museums of the city, on the one hand, and the university, on the other, have developed research independently without finding forms of collaboration. However, these relationships have strengthened in recent decades, enhancing the central role of the university in the city's cultural production.