SIGNS AND FIGURATIONS IN ITALIAN MESOLITH IC

One shows the general characters of figurative manifestations from the last moment of final Epigravettian and Mesolithic in Italy. The setti ng does not appear homogenous but rather diversified in several iconog raphic streams. In Northern Italy, a strong connection with the Final Upper Palaeolithic tradition is observed, without notable transformati ons from the conceptual point of view, nor in the graphic language. Ne vertheless in the South, a linear-figurative stream leads to the forma tion of an original iconographic facies, after an internal evolution. During the Late Glacial and the Mesolithic, a standardized production of painted pebbles, often engraved, connected to French Azilian Art, c oncerned the whole Peninsula;Is well as Sicily.