Its last eruption can be traced back to about 700,000 years ago.
Human presence on Mount Amiata has been attested since prehistoric times. The oldest artistic testimony is a graffiti depicting an archer.
The "archer", from which the cave in which it is located takes its name, is located in the municipality of Abbadia San Salvatore at an altitude of 1050 m. bronze. For the Etruscans, Amiata was the sacred land, where their most important deity lived: Tinia (Jupiter for the Romans).
