Sixty-six stone tools sampled through archaeological criteria, all but six from the Bellucci Collection in the Archaeological Museum, Perugia, are presented. Sixty-four 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 shaft-holed axes.Sixty tools are made of HP-metaophiolites (33 eclogites, 26 Na-px 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 Italy.Three implements (including one shaft-holed axe) are made of sedimentary rocks of local origin. Three others (including one shaft-holed 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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