New Approaches to Old Stones: Recent Studies of Ground Stone Artifacts

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1. Introduction: Keeping our Noses to the Grinding Stone Yorke M. Rowan and Jennie R. Ebeling Part I: Production and Exchange 2. Geological Constraints on Ground Stone Production and Consumption in the Southern Levant Joan S. Schneider (University of California, Riverside) and Philip C. LaPorta (La Porta & Associates) 3. Discovery of a Medieval Islamic Industry for Steatite Cooking Vessels in Egypt's Eastern Desert James A. Harrell and V. Max Brown (The University of Toledo) 4. Beyond the Moh Scale: Raw Material Choice and the Production of Stone Vases in a Late Minoan Context Tristan Carter (Stanford University) 5. Stones on Stone: Assessing the Use of Handstones as Tools to Process Stone Artifacts at PPNB Ba'ja in Southern Jordan Philipp M. Rassmann (University of Washington) 6. A Chip Off the Old Millstone: Grinding Stone Production and Distribution in the Early Bronze Age of the Negev Yael Abadi and Steven A. Rosen (Ben-Gurion University) 7. The Exchange of Stone Tools and Vessels During the Early Bronze Age in the Southern Levant Ianir Milevski (Israel Antiquities Authority) 8. Crafts, Production and the Organization of Ground Stone Technologies Katherine Wright (University College London) 9. Maize-Grinding Tools in Prehispanic Central Mexico. Martin Biskowski (California State University, Sacramento) Part II: Use, Reuse and Curation: Site Formation Processes and Functional Interpretations 10. Grinding Stones and Seeds of Change: Starch and Phytoliths as Evidence of Plant Food Processing Richard Fullagar, Judith Field and Lisa Kealhofer (The University of Sydney) 11. Identifying Lightly Used Polishing Stones: Experiments and Implications Martha Trenna Valado (University of Arizona) 12. Wear Patterns on Ground Stone Implements from Tel Yin'am. Harold Liebowitz (University of Texas at Austin) 13. Variation in the Organization of Prehistoric Milling Technology of the Northern Mojave Desert, North America. Mark E. Basgall (California State University, Sacramento) 14. Beyond the Broken Jenny L. Adams (Desert Archaeology, Tucson) 15. Ground Stone Tools, Refuse Structure, and the Life Histories of Residential Buildings at Ayn Ab Nukhayla, Southern Jordan. Seiji Kadowaki (University of Toronto) 16. The Changing Face of Ground Stone Studies in the American Great Basin. Renee Corona Kolvet (Desert Research Institute, Las Vegas) Part III: Symbols of Luxury and Ritual Equipment 17. Basalt Bowls in Early Bronze IA Shaft Tombs at Bab edh-Dhra': Placement, Production and Symbol R. Thomas Schaub (Indiana University of Pennsylvania) 18. Stone Alabastra in Western Anatolia C.H. Roosevelt (Boston University) 19. Carving Luxury: Late Classic White Stone Vase Traditions in Mesoamerica Christina Luke (Boston University) 20. Stone Vessel Production Caves on the Eastern Slope of Mount Scopus, Jerusalem David Amit, Jon Seligman and Irena Zilberbod (Israel Antiquities Authority) 21. Beyond Provenance Analysis: The Movement of Basaltic Artefacts Through a Social Landscape Graham Rutter and Graham Philip (University of Durham) Part IV: New Insights from Old Stones New Insights from Old Stones: A Survey of Grinding Stones Studies Jane Peterson (Marquette University)

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