Caratteri tecnotipologici e aspetti funzionali delle industrie scheggiate dell'Eneolitico precampaniforme in Italia centrale: riflessioni e problemi

The study has been carried out with an integrated methodological approach. The research has been applied either to settlements, funerary sites/contexts and flak¬ing workshops. The original study of leaf-shaped arrowhead from two Tuscan caves (Spinosa, GR, and Tana della Volpe, MS) has been the basis for developing a more general reflexion on the functional meaning of these lithic assemblages. As it concerns flaking workshops, recent discoveries shed a new light on a large number of sites defined in the past as “campignani”; many of these sites can be nowadays identified as workshops devoted to the production of leaf-shaped arrowheads. In a comparative perspective to deal with data based on an adequate interpretative framework it would be necessary, according to the Authors, a critical revision based on technological and functional analyses of the old concept of “Campignano”, including the assemblages from the Gargano area.