The conference of the working group on the Mesolithic hosted at the Natural History Museum in Vienna is about to start. As part of the research on the Alpine Mesolithic, Elisabetta Starnini will present a joint communication with Professor Paolo Biagi on the pre-Boreal site of Cascina Valmaione, located in the Central Alps. The title of the presentaiton is: “Cascina Valmaione: A Preboreal Mesolithic site in the Central Alps (Lombardy, Northern ltaly)”