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Microlithic industry, backed blades

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Civic Museum of Palaeontology and Palaeo-ethonology “Decio de Lorentiis”. Backed tips. Flint. Upper Palaeolithic.11,000-10,000 years.

4 backed tips with trapezoid section and steep deep right lateral retouch, except for 1 steep deep lateral left retouched one.
During the course of the Final Epigravettian a change in the Stone industry occurred in which the tendency to microlithism developed, which depended on new hunting strategies of small animals and on collecting marine and land molluscs.

Further information
Identificazione
  Inventory number: 83776, 83777, 83778, 83779
Precedenti localizzazioni
  Provenance: C. Cosma collection
Reperimento
  Place of discovery: Grotta delle Cipolliane, Novaglie (Le)
Oggetto
  Class and ware: Stone industry
Cronologia
  Period: Upper Palaeolithic
  Datazione certa secolo: 11,000-10,000 years
Definizione culturale
  Cultural milieu: Final Epigravettian period
Dati tecnici
  Material: Flint
  Technique: Chipping
  Width: max 1,2 - min 0,4
  Length: max 2,0 - min 0,9
  Thickness: max 0,2 - min 0,2
  Varie: Units cm
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