The aim of this article is twofold: on one hand we believe it to be opportune to present a
synthesis of the interdisciplinary results of the palaeoenvironmental research which has …

Abstract Isernia La Pineta is one of the most important European Middle Pleistocene site.
This paper focuses on the results of the experimental program compared with the data …

The techno-functional approach has been employed to better understand one of the more
relevant artifact types generally found in Lower Palaeolithic sites: so-called small tools …

The lower Verbano region during the Epigravettian: the lithic assemblage from Via del
Maneggio, Castelletto sopra Ticino (NO)-In 2003, during the archaeological excavations …

In recent years many issues arose regarding the technological and functional analysis of
lithic assemblages dominated by “second rate raw materials” like vein quartz, metamorphic …

The techno-functional analysis of the lithic assemblages from the Mousterian of Santa Croce
has evidenced the complementarity of the two main knapping processes: the laminar …

Abstract The Lower Palaeolithic site of Guado San Nicola (GSN) is located near the village
of Monteroduni (Molise, Central Italy). The archaeological layers identified date to the …

With the exception of Les Pradelles, the lithic industries from the sites included in the
research project were the subject of use-wear analyses. For Les Pradelles, functional data …

During 1993 a campaing of lithic experiments was carried out near the National Paleolithic
Museum and archaeological park at Isernia La Pineta, with the aim of reproducing the …

In this paper we are presenting the use-wear traces study of some Lithic artefacts from a
cinerary funerary context of Colos. This funerary monument is an hypogea dug in a hillock of …