The bipolar-on-anvil percussion in central Thyrrenian Italy

Bietti, Amilcare; Cancellieri, Emanuele; Corinaldesi, Cinzia; Grimaldi, Stefano; Spinapolice, Enza Elena

doi:10.4000/paleo.1956

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“…However at Terra Amata the limestone pebbles yielding flat flakes were large flat ovals that could be easily held in the hand and experiments [ 94 ] show that flat flakes were produced by hand-held vertical percussion on anvil, a mode of production quite different from the knapping of the small flint pebbles of the Latium sites. Flakes without opposing bulb or other counterblow features are also obtained experimentally when a stone anvil is used in bipolar flaking [ 95 ] but always in association with bipolar products with blow and counterblow features.…”

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Early Levallois and the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic in central Italy

Soriano

Villa

2017

PLoS ONE

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In the second half of the 19th century Pleistocene faunas were discovered in two sites, Sedia del Diavolo and Monte delle Gioie, contained in deposits of the Aniene River in the area of Rome (Latium, Italy). Fieldwork by A.C. Blanc in the late 1930’s proved the association of fauna and lithic industry within fluvial deposits interbedded with volcanoclastic layers. A human femoral diaphysis and a metatarsal were later identified in the faunal assemblage from Sedia del Diavolo and evaluated as Neandertal. The lithic assemblages from these two sites were the basis of the definition of the Protopontinian by M. Taschini, which she viewed as a late Middle Pleistocene industry very similar to the later, Upper Pleistocene Pontinian industries, thought to be characteristic of the Latium Mousterian. The chronostratigraphic framework of the Aniene river deposits has been recently updated and the lithic assemblages from these two sites are now confidently dated between 295 and 290 ka, close to the transition from MIS 9 to MIS 8. They fit chronologically between the industries of layers m and d from Torre in Pietra, a site 26 km northwest of Rome. The presence of the Levallois debitage is indisputable yet it occurs within an original technical context, different from what is known in other early occurrences of the Levallois. The date confirms the proposed chronology for the early Levallois in Europe. More importantly these two assemblages demonstrate that this technology can emerge in more diversified contexts than usually described. This suggests that its dispersal in Europe may have been rapid.

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Early Levallois and the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic in central Italy

Soriano

Villa

2017

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“…Bipolar products have peculiar documented characteristics (Barham, 1987;Knight, 1991;Guyodo and Marchand, 2005;Bietti et al, 2010;Bradbury, 2010;Soriano et al, 2010):…”

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Lithic techno-complexes in Italy from 50 to 39 thousand years BP: An overview of lithic technological changes across the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic boundary

Marciani

Ronchitelli

Arrighi

et al. 2020

Quaternary International

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“…features of scars and the bulb, the inclination of the retouch scars with respect to the opposed face, and the morphology of the scars). The identification of knapping techniques has usually been carried out in combination with experimental activities and numerous contributions have been published over the years [91–98], while more generic information is available for the use of hammers on bones [99].…”

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An integrated method for understanding the function of macro-lithic tools. Use wear, 3D and spatial analyses of an Early Upper Palaeolithic assemblage from North Eastern Italy

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The article presents an original analysis which combines use-wear, 3D modelling and spatial analyses to experimental archaeology in order to investigate Early Upper Palaeolithic flint-knapping gestures and techniques involving the use of macro-lithic tools. In particular, the methodological framework proposed in this paper was applied to the study of Protoaurignacian and Aurignacian macro-tools from Fumane Cave (Verona, Italy). Combining spatial analysis and use wear investigation, both at low and high magnifications, permitted the identification and detailed description of the use-related traces affecting both the hammerstones and retouchers which, at Fumane Cave, were used at different stages during flint tool production. Several experimental activities were performed including core reduction, maintenance, and blank production together with different types of edge retouching. From a methodological perspective, the protocol of analysis permitted to codify specific traces and to produce quantitative data related to their geometry and distribution over the tool’s surface, according to the activities and gestures performed. The results obtained allowed a careful investigation of the function and the gestures associated to the use of the macro-lithic tools coming from the Protoaurignacian and Aurignacian levels of Fumane Cave while providing a methodological tool for interpreting different archaeological samples.

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The bipolar-on-anvil percussion in central Thyrrenian Italy

Cited by 11 publications

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Early Levallois and the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic in central Italy

Early Levallois and the beginning of the Middle Paleolithic in central Italy

Lithic techno-complexes in Italy from 50 to 39 thousand years BP: An overview of lithic technological changes across the Middle-Upper Palaeolithic boundary

An integrated method for understanding the function of macro-lithic tools. Use wear, 3D and spatial analyses of an Early Upper Palaeolithic assemblage from North Eastern Italy

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