Bulini e tradizioni tecniche nell’arco Mediterraneo nord-occidentale. Il caso delle industrie tardoneolitiche di Tosina di Monzambano (Mantova)

During the fifth millennium cal. BC, the coastal regions extending from north-western Italy to Catalonia (i.e. the north-western Mediterranean arc) are characterized by an increasing complexity in the material productions. Lithic assemblages testify the diffusion of technological innovations, the emergence of specialized craftworks, the exchange of raw-materials and finished goods over large territories, and the existence of technical transfers. Within this framework, one of the most interesting elements is represented by the Burins on blade. On the basis of several analysis carried out on the assemblages of both the Chassey Culture of Southern France and of the Cerny Culture of the Paris Basin, it seems that those tools were mainly used for working ligneous and non-ligneous plants. In the present work, Authors present the preliminary results obtained from the technological and traceological analysis of a sample of burins recovered from the Lagozza Culture levels of Tosina di Monzambano (Mantova). The site, a huge Neolithic settlement located south of the Garda Lake, has been recently excavated by the Soprintendenza Archeologia della Lombardia in collaboration with the SAGAS Department of the Università di Firenze and the Museo e Istituto Fiorentino di Preistoria. The study carried out on the Burins on blade shows a strong similarity between the Lagozza and the Chassey tools, from a morpho-typometric, technological and traceological point of view. The same type of blanks has been selected and the same type of functional strategies has been applied. At Tosina di Monzambano Burins are associated to craft process on vegetal substances, probably soft-woods or highly siliceous plants. In addition, the burin stroke it is occasionally used for edge resharpening and, possibly, for narrowing the edge in order to facilitate the insertion of the blank into some type of handle.