Resumen de Excavations at the high altitude Mesolithic site of Pian de La Lóra (Val Civetta - Venetian Dolomites, Italy)
The author describes the preliminary results from the excavations at the high-altitude Mesolithic site of Pian de La Lóra (Val Civetta - Venetian Dolomites, Italy). As showed, the systematic wet sieving of the archaeological deposit led to the discovery of a significant lithic assemblage, made of flint from the southern Prealpine belt and composed by more than a thousand unretouched artefacts, almost a hundred microburins, a few exhausted cores, well represented common tools and several armatures. Field research also brought to light a rare fire pit structure, whose charcoal remains were sampled for paleoenvironmental studies and radiocarbon dated at 7920±50 uncal BP (GrN-31265, 6230-6020 cal BC). Researches, still in progress, allowed the author to identify a Late Mesolithic hunting station, whose ephemeral occupation fosters new reflections on the last hunter-gatherers of northern Italy.
