Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages
After the fall of the Roman Empire, the territory of the Appenninno Lucano National Park was again the scene of fascinating stories, characterised by a new relationship between man and nature. Between late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages, Lucania was to present vast areas of rarefied habitation, dominated by fallow land and woodland, and man returned to living in close contact with nature and the wild world: for example, in numerous hagiographies of the time, the wolf or the bear were no longer seen as fearsome predators, but sometimes as animals with which to share food, or in competition when hunting: people were unable to satisfy their needs for some periods due to difficulties in managing the agricultural economy, so they returned to being hunters and gatherers.
