ABSTRACT

STUDIESOFTHEPleistocenesequenceinCentralItaly, particularlyintheRomearea,ledthelateProfessor AlbertaBlanctoestablishanewschemeofrelativechronology forlocalapplication.65Theframeworkoftheschemeconsists ofthefivemaincoldphasesinthesequence,whichareassumed torepresentglaciations.Thesewereprovisionallynamedby Blanctoprovideaterminologyindependentoftheoretical correlations.