Planning a Trip During Middle Palaeolithic. The Mobile Toolkit Debate and Some Considerations About Expedient vs Curated Technologies in the Light of New Data from the Ciota Ciara Cave (NW Italy)

•The presence, in a lithic assemblage, of portable artefacts is an important component of the technology of foraging populations.•The present work proposes a technological and functional study of artefacts in allochthonous rocks (rhyolite and radiolarite) from level 14 of the Ciota Ciara cave.•In the lithic assemblage these rocks are mainly represented by retouched tools and flakes issued from the rejuvenation of the tools’ edges.•No functional differences are observed between tolls made in local and in allochthonous rocks.•The general picture appears more complex than the dichotomy between expedient and curated behaviors.