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Excavation

  • Riparo l’Oscurusciuto
  • Ginosa
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  • Italy
  • Apulia
  • Province of Taranto
  • Ginosa

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  • The Italian Database is the result of a collaboration between:

    MIBAC (Ministero per i Beni e le Attività Culturali - Direzione Generale per i Beni Archeologici),

    ICCD (Istituto Centrale per il Catalogo e la Documentazione) and

    AIAC (Associazione Internazionale di Archeologia Classica).

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Summary (English)

  • The excavation investigated the patches of US 4 (spit III) in quadrants C11-12, C14-15, the removal of which revealed the top of units 5 and 7. The sediment was not concretionary and the materials in quadrants C11 and C12 were easily recovered, while the concretionary terrain in quadrants C14-C15 made excavation more difficult. Once this first phase was completed, research took place in US 5 and 6, constituted by several alternating levels of ash and charcoal relating to a hearth c. 2.5 m in diameter, situated against the wall in the north-west corner of the shelter. The hearth was housed in a depression at the top of US 7 (US negative 35). In quadrants C10 and C11 the hearth was almost completely destroyed by a system of animal burrows (US 90), already exposed during previous campaigns. This complex also heavily cut the deposit in quadrant C12 (and to a limited extent in C13) with two overlying tunnels linked by several vertical tracts. US 5 was excavated in two spits 10 cm thick, while US 6, only identified in a limited area, was removed in a single spit. This revealed the negative US 35, forming the surface of the depression containing the hearth. In the area not disturbed by US 90, the edge of the depression was identified against the north wall of the shelter.

    Subsequently, US 7 was removed in quadrants C11-12-13-14-15 down to the top of US 8. US 7 contained fewer materials compared to the layers above and was compressed by the burrow system (US 90) in quadrants C11-12. As the excavation continued, this complex became larger and was revealed to be a single large tunnel extending west to east, which at the top of US 8, occupied quadrants C10-11-12 and in part C13. In order to leave the north bulk as stable as possible at the end of the campaign, the excavations halted at the top of US 9 in quadrant C12. In this area US 8 was poor in materials.

    Most of the faunal remains recovered during the course of the excavations seemed to belong to Bos primigenius. Rare fragments of deer bone were also present.
    There was no new evidence about the lithic production (recurrent dominant Levallois). The working took place, at least in part, on site, as shown by numerous elements of the first reduction cores, exhausted cores or ones that were abandoned because damaged, by hammerstones and a number of chips. The artefacts transformed by retouching included points that were intact at the apex, and flake scrapers, some denticulated.

  • Annamaria Ronchitelli - Università degli Studi di Siena, Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente 
  • Francesco Boschin - Unità di Ricerca di Preistoria e Antropologia - Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell’Ambiente – Università di Siena 

Director

Team

  • Jacopo Crezzini- Unità di Ricerca Preistoria e Antropologia - Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente - Università degli Studi di Siena
  • Paolo Boscato - Unità di Ricerca di Preistoria e Antropologia - Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell’Ambiente – Università dei Siena
  • Francesco Berna- Department of Archeology, Simon Fraser University, Burnaby, British Columbia
  • Daniele Aureli- Università degli Studi di Siena
  • Filomena Ranaldo- Unità di Ricerca Preistoria e Antropologia - Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente - Università degli Studi di Siena
  • Vincenzo Spagnolo- Università degli Studi di Siena
  • Stefano Ricci- Unità di Ricerca Preistoria e Antropologia - Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente - Università degli Studi di Siena

Research Body

  • Università degli Studi di Siena

Funding Body

  • Amministrazione Comunale di Ginosa (TA)
  • Centro Studi sul Quaternario Onlus
  • Università degli Studi di Siena

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