Carlo Peretto

Abstract: Con questo volume, esce il secondo appuntamento editoriale del Master ERASMUS MUNDUS inQuaternary and Prehistory approvato e finanziato dalla Commissione Europea dal 2004. E'quanto mai positivo constatare che il tema della nostra evoluzione biologica e culturale e degliambienti naturali, che l'accompagnano fin dalle sue origini, susciti un grande interesse, tanto da coinvolgerestudenti, docenti e studiosi di tutto il mondo. Questo emerge scorrendo il contenuto degli articoli scientifici ela provenienza ...

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ABSTRACT The site of Hmar Lakhdad is a vast prehistoric site of surface located in South-east Morocco. Within the framework of a scientific project of co-operation between Morocco and Italy, we carried out samplings of lithic material in order to specify the cultural caracteristics of industries and to estimate the potential of this site in term of scientific exploitation of the data. The techno-typological study of the material highlighted that the material, exclusively carried out on sandstone in plates present at the detrital state near the site, belongs to a Palaeolithic unit. Several flaking systems typicals of Paleolithic were identified. The great representativeness of the artifacts belonging to the first phases of the reduction sequence indicates that the prehistoric mens were installed on the site also because the raw material was avaibles there. The phases of transformation of the supports into tools are also represented primarily by scrapers and denticulated. However, materials attribuable to a recent period are observable on a significant number. Perhaps the exhaustive study of several series of artifacts taken in various points of the site would make possible to highlight a possible spatial organization with a specialization of the surfaces. This first approach confronts us, as it is always the case for the sites of surface of the Saharan areas, with the problems of integrity of the documents restored by these not very reliable sites and consequently with the character of information which they restore. Key words : South-east Morocco, techno-typological study, layer of surface.

... Il primo popolamento della penisola italiana: considerazioni sul significato delle industrie litiche più antiche. Autores: Carlo Peretto; Localización: Rivista di scienze preistoriche, ISSN 0035-6514, Nº. 49, 1998 , págs. 351-356. Fundación Dialnet. Acceso de usuarios registrados. ...

Current studies on the origin of language clearly show the necessity to go beyond the debate of nature vs. culture in order to pursue an interdisciplinary perspective. The convergence of researches carried out in different fields – neurobiology, palaeoanthropology and linguistics – outlines in a rather clear and convincing framework the strong link between language and motility. Various sources of

ABSTRACT Pirro Nord, located in Apricena, Southern Italy, represents one of the earliest records of hominin dispersal into Europe. The site is dated on a biochronological basis between 1.6 and 1.3 Ma and a significant vertebrate assemblage (Pirro Nord Faunal Unit) is associated with lithic artefacts which show many similarities with more or less contemporaneous lithic assemblages in Europe and with the African Mode 1. Since 2006, 340 artefacts have been found in the Pirro 13 fissure, and the lithic series is considered as a homogenous assemblage in terms of taphonomical, technological and raw material characteristics. Flint is the main raw material and the available and exploited flint cobbles and pebbles have different morphologies and sizes. The raw material has been collected in a secondary position near the actual location of the deposit. Two main reduction sequences have been performed by hominins in Pirro Nord: an “opportunistic” debitage, with multiple striking platforms in order to produce flakes of different morphologies including some “debordant” flakes and at least one cutting edge, and a “centripetal” or convergent debitage for the production of flakes with convergent cutting edges. The “opportunistic” approach has been adopted for the reduction of the largest flint cobbles and the polyhedral pebbles/cobbles. This method is considered as an adaptation to the raw material shape. The debitage is always made by direct percussion and hard hammer. Most of the cores are abandoned non-exhausted. In some rare cases, the use of flint pebbles of poor quality is also documented and seems to be the result of a very opportunistic and expeditious behaviour. Four flakes are retouched and are from an advanced phase of the debitage. The patterns from Pirro Nord fit well with the technological features provided by most of the European Mode 1 sites. Some peculiar features may be observed, possibly due to the main use of flint. The site with the highest similarities with Pirro Nord is Cà Belvedere di, possibly because the raw materials are ovoid flint pebbles. The lithic strategies at Pirro Nord are characterized, (1) by “opportunistic” and expedient behaviour adapted to the raw material constraints, suggested by the very short reduction sequences and by the non-exhaustion of the cores and, (2) by a series of products (pointed flakes) that appears to indicate a presumable intentionality.

Several faunal assemblages excavated in deposits of different antiquity (from Lower Paleolithic to Bronze Age), located in Northern, Central and Southern Italy, were studied from the archeozoological and taphonomic point of view. Data obtained by different Authors allow reconstruction of subsistence strategies adopted by prehistoric humans in these areas and through time, in particular as far as the exploitation of animal resources is concerned. The following assemblages were considered: Isernia La Pineta (Molise; Lower Paleolithic), Grotta Breuil (Latium; Middle Paleolithic), Grotta della Ghiacciaia (Verona; Middle Paleolithic), Riparo di Fumane and Riparo Tagliente (Verona; Middle and Upper Paleolithic), Riparo Mochi (Liguria; Upper Paleolithic), Grotta della Continenza (L'Aquila; Upper Paleolithic and Mesolithic), Grotta dell'Edera (Trieste; Mesolithic and Neolithic), Grotta della Cala at Marina di Camerota (Salerno; Eneolithic), Contraguda (Sassari; Neolithic), Castellar...

ABSTRACT Isernia La Pineta archaeological site in Central Italy, dated to about 0.6 Ma, is one of the earliest archaeological sites of the Italian peninsula and one of the key sites for the knowledge of human behaviour during the early Middle Pleistocene in Western Europe. Several archaeostratigraphic units have been recognized and systematically excavated. Core and flake assemblages were studied as a bulk in the Eighties of last century with a typo-metrical approach, not taking into account a precise stratigraphic provenance. Here we present a review of the lithic collection from the lowermost archaeostratigraphic unit (t.3c) which is the first techno-economic analysis based on the concept of chaîne opératoire. Our results contrast with those from previous studies. Our analysis demonstrates that the technical criteria employed in small débitage are not opportunistic and unstructured as previously inferred. By contrast, they correspond to well-established mental templates that led knappers (1) to use mainly a discoid method; (2) to apply this débitage method regardless of the size and shape of the original matrix; (2) to maintain a high productivity; and (3) to produce medium-sized flakes to be turned into small tools. The new data are discussed in the framework of the Lower/early Middle Pleistocene technological complexes of Western Europe, calling into question a number of allegations about the first technical traditions that have been previously accepted without reservation.

The studies and the researches carried out in the last years on the Palaeolithic site of Isernia La Pineta have brought to consider in new way the activities realized by the human group that lived the basin of Isernia during the Middle Pleistocene offering an important key of interpretation of the behavioural strategies of the prehistoric man. The analysis of

The Amane Oukider site (Tinghir, Anti-Atlas) was discovered by an Italo-Moroccan field crew during an archeological mapping project in South-East Morocco. It is an open-air site located near a outcrop of raw materials composed of dolerite. The only debitage method in evidence is the Levallois (lineal and recurrent centripetal) method; the plein débitage products were systematically exported from the site. The Levallois preferential flakes are characterized by a very high level of standardization and they were probably used as ...

Di Nucci, Annarosa and Lembo, Giuseppe and Minelli, Antonella and Peretto, Carlo and Terzani, Cristiana and Thun Hohenstein, Ursula (2005) Accampamenti di cacciatori preistorici a Isernia La Pineta. FOLD&R FastiOnLine documents & research (34). pp. 1-2. ...