The SUCCESSO-TERRA Project: a Lesson of Sustainability from the Terramare Culture, Middle Bronze Age of the Po Plain (Northern Italy)

BackgroundHow can we mitigate the effects of climate change?How can our society develop towards models of sustainable development in the coming years?The "bridge" to sustainability is a pivotal topic of international debate and is among the priorities of the agenda of the Horizon2020 Societal Challenges, linking the past with the future.Despite the many achievements emerging from some new solutions, it is becoming increasingly aware that the study of the past is at the root of reliable and responsible actions for the future.The SUCCESSO-TERRA Project (Human societies, climate-environment changes and resource exploitation/ sustainability in the Po Plain in the mid-Holocene: the Terramare culture; 2017-2020) is an interdisciplinary research program aiming at reconstructing the landscape and land-use transformations that occurred during the trajectory of the Terramare culture in the southern-central Po Plain of Northern Italy (Figure 1).The project, funded by