Le industrie litiche paleolitiche e mesolitiche di Cividate Camuno (Valle Camonica, Brescia): sistemi tecnici e materie prime

During the restoration of a Roman domus at Cividate Camuno-Via Palazzo (Valle Camonica - Brescia), the archaeological investigations, carried out by the Soprintendenza Archeologica della Lombardia in 1988, 1992 and 1995, had brought to light an important stratigraphic sequence containing levels dating back to the Upper Palaeolithic, Early Mesolithic, Middle to Late Neolithic and Copper Age. The Authors present the preliminary results of the study focused on technology and raw materials procurement carried on two distinct chipped stone assemblages, the first one coming from levels pertaining an Upper Palaeolithic hut (US 295, Late Epigravettian) and a second one from Mesolithic level (US 282) in which Sauveterrian assemblage has been found. Two radiocarbon dates for both the phases of human occupation are available: 13805 ± 440 BP, for the Epigravettian, and 8820 ± 112 BP for the Sauveterrian. The study on technical systems and siliceous raw materials, improves the information framework on the Cividate Camuno chipped stone productions which were known until now only under the typological and use-wear point of view. This study, aimed at the reconstruction of the chaine opératoires, compares the two stone assemblages highlighting the main differences in technology and raw materials exploitation, also in relation to the evolution of the palaeoenvironmental context in a period during the end of the Pleistocene and Early Holocene. The results are contextualized in the framework of the lithic productions of the last hunter-gatherers groups in Lombardy and has been compared with the coeval evidence from Northern Italy and in particular with those from Veneto-Trentino area.