The Evolution of Osseous Technology during the Neolithization Process in Liguria, Italy

Summary

This is an abstract from the "SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts" session, at the 90th annual meeting of the Society for American Archaeology.

Liguria, Italy, offers an ideal setting to study how hunter-gatherers adapted to the climatic, social and political changes of the transition to the Neolithic. Additionally, Liguria is an interesting region to study this question since it was one of the first regions of the Western Mediterranean to be colonized by Neolithic agriculturalists and thus likely played a key role in the cultural transmission of new technologies westward in Europe. However, research on the Neolithic transition in Liguria is still scarce. A comparative study of the bone industry of the sites of Arma di Nasino and Arma dello Stefanin allows us to describe the use and production of bone tools. This provides insight into the daily activities of the populations of this region during this critical social and climatic transition, in addition to providing clues about the social organization and the knowledge of early Neolithic populations, who used new technologies to navigate the changing world in which they lived. These tools reveal shifts in lifeways and subsistence, which reflect the nature of social and technological changes during this pivotal period in the history of our species.

This Resource is Part of the Following Collections

• Society for American Archaeology 90th Annual Meeting, Denver, CO (2025)   •
• SAA 2025: Individual Abstracts

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Abstract Id(s): 51976