Il sito tardoneolitico di Tosina di Monzambano (Mantova): nuovi dati sulle industrie litiche scheggiate della Lagozza alla luce delle campagne di scavo 2014-2016

Recent archaeological excavations carried out at Tosina, in the municipality of Monzambano (Mantova) have brought to light a wide prehistoric settlement. The site, located south of Lake Garda, in the morainic amphitheatre, has been intensively inhabited during the Late Neolithic. Later sporadic human frequentations can be referred to the Copper Age and to the Bronze Age. The Authors present the preliminary results of the study on chipped stone industries found in the SU 110 during the 2014-2016 archaeological research. This work, although still in progress, updates the already published data from 2007 and 2012 excavations. The archaeological level SU 110 refers to a one of the first phase of occupation dating back to the first half of the IV millennium BC. The pottery assemblage consists in abundant materials which can be attributed to the Lagozza culture with rare items related to Square-Mouthed Pottery-phase III Culture (VBQ III). The stone tool assemblage has typical features of the Lagozza culture, under both the typological and technological ground: occurrence of transversal arrowheads and frontal end-scrapers, significant percentages of truncations and multiple burins on truncation, highly standardized pressure blade technology. Pressure technology aimed at the production of symmetrical blades and bladelets is near exclusively based on the exploitation of raw material from Lessini formations. Together with these features related to the Lagozza technology, rare elements, in both the lithic and pottery assemblages, testify a slight persistence of Square-Mouthed Pottery-phase III Culture.