Hoarding unworked flints within humid microenvironments. New evidence from the Mesolithic of the Southern Alps

A hoard composed by six blocks of flint has recently been discovered inside a peat bog on the Cansiglio Plateau (Venetians Pre-Alps). the blocks were collected in sources situated 25 km far from the plateau and in almost all cases they were tested before being carried onto the site. Owing to the preliminary state of the fieldwork, only a few hypotheses regarding the significance of the hoaerd can be proposed here, above all in relation to an adiacent Epigravettian open-air site. comparisons with other hoards in Europe highlight the peculiarity of this kind of structure.