Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research

Contents

1. Making Flour in Palaeolithic Europe. New Perspectives on Nutritional Challenges From Plant Food Processing – Anna Revedin, Biancamaria Aranguren, Silvia Florindi, Emanuele Marconi, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Annamaria Ronchitelli ;

2. The Groundstone Assemblages of Shubayqa 1 and 6, Eastern Jordan - Technological choices, Gestures and Processing Strategies of Late Hunter-Gatherers in the Qa’ Shubayqa – Patrick Nørskov Pedersen ;

3. Starch Grain Analysis of Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) Contexts: Experimental Grinding Tests of Cereals and Legumes – Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, and Aurélie Salavert ;

4. Mapping Life-Cycles: Exploring Grinding Technologies And The Use Of Space At Late/Final Neolithic Kleitos, Northern Greece – D. Chondrou and S.M. Valamoti ;

5. Macro-Lithic Tools and the Late Neolithic Economy in the Middle Morava Valley, Serbia – Vesna Vučković ;

6. The Ecological Significance of Ground-stone axes in the Later Stone Age (LSA) of West-Central Africa – Orijemie Emuobosa Akpo ;

7. The New Oasis: Potential of Use-Wear for Studying Plant Exploitation in the Gobi Desert Neolithic – Laure Dubreuil, Angela Evoy, and Lisa Janz ;

8. Above and Below: The Late Chalcolithic Ground Stone Tool Assemblage of Tsomet Shoket – Daniela Alexandrovsky, Ron Be’eri and Danny Rosenberg ;

9. Grinding technologies in the Bronze Age of northern Greece: New data from the sites of Archontiko and Angelochori – Tasos Bekiaris, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Christos L. Stergiou and Soultana-Maria Valamoti ;

10. Pounding Amid the Cliffs: Stationary Facilities and Cliff Caves in the Judean Desert, Israel – Uri Davidovich ;

11. Quernstones in Social Context: the early medieval baker’s house from Wrocław – Ewa Lisowska ;

12. Stone Mortars: A Poorly Known Component of Material Culture, Used in France Since the Iron Age. Including Recent Data for Late Medieval Trading Reaching the Baltic – Geert Verbrugghe ;

13. Telling Textures: Surface Textures May Reveal Which Grains Were Ground in Northern Ethiopia – Laurie Nixon-Darcus ;

14. The Bored Stone, Nougouil: Weighted Digging Sticks in Ethiopia – Jérôme Robitaille

About the Author

Patrick Nørskov Pedersen is a PhD-student in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen. His research specializes in ground stone tool technology, currently focusing on the ground stone assemblages from Shubayqa 1 and 6, two late Epipalaeolithic-early Neolithic sites in eastern Jordan. ;

Anne Jörgensen-Lindahl is a PhD student at the department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, University of Copenhagen. Her PhD project researches the chipped stone assemblage from Natufian-PPNA Shubayqa 1 and 6 (Jordan) using micro-wear analysis to understand the role of the tools in terms of food procurement, processing and disposal during the early stages of the transition from hunting-gathering to agriculture in southwest Asia. ;

Mikkel Sørrensen is Associate Professor of prehistoric archaeology at the SAXO Institute, University of Copenhagen. His main areas of research are prehistoric hunter-gatherer societies of northern Europe and the eastern Arctic, climate change research in human science, lithic technology and the chaîne opératoire approach. ;

Tobias Richter is Associate Professor in Near Eastern Archaeology at the University of Copenhagen. His research focuses on the material culture, economy, social organisation and development of gatherer-hunter-cultivator-fishers during the late Pleistocene and early Holocene in southwest Asia.