Our knowledge about the Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic in eastern Liguria is based almost entirely on the study of artefacts collected on surface, more rarely from excavations and test pits. While there is still no clear evidence of Lower Palaeolithic, there are several sites dating back to the Middle and Upper Palaeolithic and the Mesolithic. This evidence, although incomplete and fragmentary, has nevertheless high- lighted a continuity of human settlement over a very wide chronological span, from Late Pleistocene to Early Holocene, and involving different altitudinal ranges, from the sea coast to the mountains of the inland.