The conference focuses on Mesolithic research in the area which extends from the Atlantic Ocean to the Mediterranean Sea and the Danube Basin, with the Alps representing its core region. Particularly, it aims at highlighting adaptation dynamics to different environments both from synchronic and diachronic viewpoints, and to investigate the role played by the Alpine chain in favouring and unfavouring contacts and cultural exchanges. The MesoLife conference thus revitalises in part the tradition of the Mesolithic conferences organised in the 1990s’ and 2000s’ by different institutions in some of the involved countries
