Campitello Quarry,    Italy Go to Data Dashboard
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Date of site is approximated by stratigraphic context of faunal remains - questionable dating as Mazza claims the earliest use of an adhesive anywhere in the world stating chronology of the site is compatible with the late Middle Pleistocene > MIS6 - approximately 200ka; Mazza P. P. A. et al. (2006). "A new Palaeolithic discovery: tar-hafted stone tools in a European Mid-Pleistocene bone-bearing bed." Journal of Archaeological Science 33(9): 1310-1318.
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 mode2 2 stone flakes; advanced Acheulean (techno-typological affinity with more accurately dated complexes (Mazza et al 2006); Acheulean; 200 artifacts with black residue corresponding to the part of tool that is grasped/handled inferred use of adhesive to attach handle or as sleeve to provide protection per Bo?īda E. et al. (2008). "Middle Palaeolithic bitumen use at Umm el Tlel around 70 000 BP." Antiquity 82(318): 853-861; material used for tools sourced 40km away (determined using gc-ms and carbon isotopes); adhesive mastic; mastic; material transport (>30k)
Upper Valdano Basin Italy
Mazza P. P. A. et al. (2006). "A new Palaeolithic discovery: tar-hafted stone tools in a European Mid-Pleistocene bone-bearing bed." Journal of Archaeological Science 33(9): 1310-1318.; Roebroeks W. and P. Villa (2011). "On the earliest evidence for habitual use of fire in Europe." Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 108(13): 5209-5214.