Neolithic greenstone in Umbria from the Bellucci

Authors: Claudio D’Amico Maria Cristina De Angelis

Publish Date: 2009/05/06

Volume: 20, Issue: 1, Pages: 61-76

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Abstract

Sixtysix stone tools sampled through archaeological criteria all but six from the Bellucci Collection in the Archaeological Museum Perugia are presented Sixtyfour of them are axes or chisels two of Neolithic typology and save a few of them all are complete and largely polished two are Chalcolithic shaftholed axesSixty tools are made of HPmetaophiolites 33 eclogites 26 Napx jades 1 serpentinite the same lithologies dominant in Neolithic implements found in Northern Italy Their study gives the first petrographic evidence of an important supply of these lithologies from the NW Italy production areas towards Central ItalyThree implements including one shaftholed axe are made of sedimentary rocks of local origin Three others including one shaftholed axe made of lavic volcanites pertaining to the Tyrrhenian Quaternary potassic volcanism of Central — Southern Italy provide evidence of occasional sources from the South to Umbria lasting from the Neolithic to Chalcholitic periods

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