Copper age lithic workshop on Mount Doc (Segusino-Treviso, North-eastern Italy). Preliminary report on the new research

This paper presents a late prehistoric site associated with flint exploitation and the first stages of working lithics. The site was excavated in 2002-2003 on the ridge of Mount Doc (1394 m above sea level), one of the westernmost peaks of the Pre-Alps range of Treviso (North-eastern Italy). The site itself and some of the documentation obtained from surveys and from extensive excavations have already been the subject of preliminary reports. These have concluded that this site was used to supply and work flint between a later stage of the Neolithic Age and the Copper Age. Below are some preliminary observations on the analysis of the lithic assemblage found in sector III of the excavations. The activities documented in that sector could be placed within a much wider economic and environmental context, as these activities were probably carried out seasonally by specialised itinerant groups linked to pastoral farming.