Flint caches and raw material economy in the Late Upper Palaeolithic and Early Mesolithic of the Eastern Italian Alps.

The discovery of caches with flint cobbles at two Late Palaeolithic/Early Mesolithic mountain sites provides new aspects concerned with the raw material provisioning and economy for hunter-gatherers that occupied the Eastern Italian Alps. The finds are here described and discussed in relation to their cultural, paleoenvironmental and functional context. They can be considered as an important source of information that contributes to reconstruct the dynamics of settlement system in this region.