La trasmissione del sapere tecnico nell’abitato dell’età del Bronzo di Coppa Nevigata (FG): un focus sull’industria litica

Despite Bronze Age lithics have always been considered as a non-informative category of tools, recent research is demonstrating their value for the understanding of the socio-cultural developments occurred during Bronze Age. Nevertheless, some questions still remain underrated: who chipped stone tools in this period? There were specialized craftsmen? In which way the knowledge related to the knapping processes was transmitted? Ongoing tecno-morpho-functional and experimental analysis on stone objects from Coppa Nevigata (Apulia), a long-lived Bronze Age settlement, helped answering those questions. Here, the knapping process is testified across the entire settlement, in areas having very different functional purposes, proving that the knowledge of lithic technology was within everyone’s reach. In this sense, it is plausible that a transmission of the knapping skills was embedded in the cultural system of the community, revealing an intrinsic learning network over the entire Bronze Age. Those results will be finally compared to the available data from coeval Italian contexts.