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Lithic Assemblages from Nakovana (Pelješac): Continuity and Change in Technology and Raw Material Procurement from Early Neolithic until the End of Prehistory

A large and complex lithic collection from Pelješac Peninsula in southern Dalmatia provides extensive information about formal typology, technology and raw materials used in production of flaked stone artifacts from the Early Neolithic until the Iron Age. Most of the evidence comes from two stratified sites, a cave named Spila and the hillfort of Grad. Changes are manifest in frequencies of lithic artifact classes, rather than in kinds of lithic artifacts. There is a marked continuity in the choice of raw material and in production technology. Virtually all lithics are made of cherts that were imported from Gargano Peninsula. They testify of persistent trans-Adriatic connections throughout post- Mesolithic prehistory. Prismatic blades were brought to Nakovana as finished products. They are present since the Early Neolithic, their frequencies peak during the Copper Age, and they disappear from the record after the Copper Age to Early Bronze Age transition. A simple flake tool production technology is present throughout the sequence. Its importance diminishes as the prismatic blade technology takes over, but after the disappearance of prismatic blades, Bronze Age lithic assemblages contain almost nothing else but products of flake technology.

lithic technology; raw materials; chert; Neolithic; Copper Age; Bronze Age; Adriatic

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