Oggetto archeologico
Circular scrapers, microlithic industryUp one level |
Civic Museum of Palaeontology and Palaeo-ethonology “Decio de Lorentiis”. Circular
scrapers. Flint. Final Epigravettian period.
At the end of the upper Palaeolithic, a new range of flint instruments appeared in the Salento characterised by the production of elements of small and very small size, called microlithic. The station that first documented this new range of instruments of man was Grotta Romanelli cave, from which the name “Romanellian industry” came. The circular scrapers are lithic elements of this production. Obtained on small chips, the man gave them a circular form by means of retouch along all or a great deal of the margin.
Further information
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| Identificazione | ||
| Inventory number: | 78529, 78535, 78541, 78543, 78544, 78546, 78548, 78549, 78550, 78586, 78588, 78679,78680, 78681 | |
| Precedenti localizzazioni | ||
| Provenance: | P. E. Stasi collection | |
| Reperimento | ||
| Place of discovery: | Grotta Romanelli, Castro (Le) | |
| Oggetto | ||
| Class and ware: | Industry on Flint | |
| Cronologia | ||
| Period: | Final Epigravettian | |
| Datazione certa secolo: | 11,500 – 9,800 years | |
| Definizione culturale | ||
| Cultural milieu: | Final Epigravettian, “romanellian industry”. | |
| Dati tecnici | ||
| Material: | Flint | |
| Technique: | Chipping | |
| Height: | max. 1,3 | |
| Width: | max. 1,5 | |
| Thickness: | 0,5 | |
| Varie: | Units cm | |
