Recent surveys in the Agro Pontino in west-central Italy have led to the discovery of a number of open air Lower Palaeolithic sites. The excavation in 1994 at one of these sites, Quarto delle Cinfonare in the Astura river valley, resulted in the collection of an abundant lithic industry which can be dated to the Middle Pleistocene. The lithic industry, which comes from the first sediments deposited at the beginning of the Latina II transgression in a beach environment, is made on local flint pebbles and can be defined as microlithic since the average dimension of the artifacts varies between 1 and 3 centimetres. The technique used seems to have been predominantly that of bipolar percussion on anvil, as the occurrence of torsions, spiked bulbs and other characteristic attributes produced by this technique is very high. Among the retouched tools carinated forms with denticulated edges are the most numerous. An analysis of the technological attributes of the lithic assemblage, followed by...
Le gisement de Quarto delle Cinfonare dans le cadre du Paléolithique inférieur de l'Italie ouest-centrale
PERETTO, Carlo;
1997
Abstract
Recent surveys in the Agro Pontino in west-central Italy have led to the discovery of a number of open air Lower Palaeolithic sites. The excavation in 1994 at one of these sites, Quarto delle Cinfonare in the Astura river valley, resulted in the collection of an abundant lithic industry which can be dated to the Middle Pleistocene. The lithic industry, which comes from the first sediments deposited at the beginning of the Latina II transgression in a beach environment, is made on local flint pebbles and can be defined as microlithic since the average dimension of the artifacts varies between 1 and 3 centimetres. The technique used seems to have been predominantly that of bipolar percussion on anvil, as the occurrence of torsions, spiked bulbs and other characteristic attributes produced by this technique is very high. Among the retouched tools carinated forms with denticulated edges are the most numerous. An analysis of the technological attributes of the lithic assemblage, followed by...I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
