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Neolithic Flaked Stone Industries of the Eastern Adriatic: the Assemblages from Pupićina and Grapčeva Caves

The first part of this paper describes and analyzes lithic assemblages from two stratified prehistoric cave sites: Pupićina (in Istria) and Grapčeva (in Dalmatia). Both assemblages were systematically recovered during recent excavations. Discussion touches upon raw material procurement, production technology, reduction strategy and discard of tools and waste, as well as temporal trends observed in the data. Departing from this new information and drawing on reports from other contemporaneous sites in the eastern Adriatic, I address several open issues of post-Mesolithic lithic industries in the region: the introduction of prismatic blade technology, the change in lithic economy and technology during Neolithic and later periods, and the timing of cessation of lithic production.

Archaeology; anthropology; lithics; Neolithic; Adriatic

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