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L’epigravettiano finale nell’alto versante tirrenico:casi di studio dell'area toscana
- Title
- L’epigravettiano finale nell’alto versante tirrenico:casi di studio dell'area toscana
- Creator(s)
- Tozzi, Carlo
- Date
- 2007
- Is Part Of
- MIllenni Studi di Archeologia preistorica 5 - L’italia tra 15.000 e 10.000 anni fa
- Pages
- 95 - 128
- Language
- eng
- Publisher
- EDIFIR
- Place Published
- Firenze
- Short Title
- L’epigravettiano finale nell’alto versante tirrenico
- Abstract
- Located in the Turrite Secca Valley, the Fredian Rock shelter was systematically investigated from 1987 until 1989. The archaeological sequence has already been studied in 1995, and one Final Epigravettian and two Sauveterrian levels have been identified. This work aims to furnish a comprehensive analysis of the entire lithic assemblage of Epigravettian Layer 5, providing an update from a techno-typological and techno-economic perspective. Strongly dependent on local resources, the industry has a wide range of raw materials available over long distances resulting from direct or indirect supplies, as part of seasonal mobility or through contacts on a larger scale. Approximately half of the assemblage consists of microlithic flakes. This is related to the particularly intense exploitation of the raw materials that characterise the Fredian Rock shelter industry compared to other sites in the Turrite Valley. Despite this peculiarity, the shelter fits well into the context of the Late Epigravettian of Upper Serchio Valley and the chrono-cultural sequences proposed in recent years for classifying industries at the end of the Late Glacial period.
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