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  • Fosso delle Caldanelle
  • Terme di Petriolo
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  • Italy
  • Tuscany
  • Province of Siena
  • Monticiano

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Monuments

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Chronology

  • 40000 BC - 10000 BC

Season

    • The stratigraphy documented on the site of Fosso delle Caldanelle from 2007-2009 was composed as follows, from bottom to top: 5- chloritic-sericitic schists eroded in a roof shape 4- alluvial deposit of cobbles 2-3 upper paleo-surface with reddish horizon (2) and a lower surface (3), that was sandier and yellow. Three levels were identified within layer 3, from bottom to top: c- sandy yellow level with inclusions of small limestone cobbles and scist fragments; b- sandy yellow level with reddish speckling; a- sandy yellow level. 6- sandy alluvial deposit with small cobbles 7- fairly thick (40 cm) deposit of hillside detritus constituted by sandy reddish sediment mixed with scists. 1- thin layer of dark brown humus (5 cm deep) The material recovered, all related to stone working, was present in levels 3 and 2, with a certain concentration at the roof of level 3a. Levels 3b and 3c were, on the contrary, almost sterile and produced only occasional fragments of flint and jasper. Production was represented by jasper artefacts that were not retouched, thus supporting the suggestion that the site was a workshop. The elements recovered seemed to confirm the presence of a chain of operation whose primary objective was the production of blades and bladelets. Amongst the rare flint artefacts there was a retouched blade. Evidence seemed to show the heating of the flint in order to facilitate its flaking.

Bibliography

    • A. Galiberti, A. Ronchitelli, 1979, Industria litica del tipo Paleolitico superiore arcaico rinvenuta presso Fosso delle Caldanelle (Grosseto), Rassegna di Archeologia 1/2.
    • S. Arrighi, V. Borgia, M. Freguglia, 2007, Fosso Delle Caldanelle (Civitella Paganico, Grosseto), in Notiziario della Rivista di Scienze Preistoriche LVII: 437.
    • S. Arrighi, V. Borgia, M. Freguglia, 2007, Civitella Paganico (GR). Fosso Delle Caldanelle, in Notiziario della Soprintendenza per i Beni Archeologici della Toscana, 3.