New approaches to old stones
Subtitle: recent studies of ground stone artifacts
By: edited by Yorke M. Rowan and Jennie R. Ebeling.
Contributors: Rowan, Yorke M.; Ebeling, Jennie R.
Series: Approaches to anthropological archaeology
Publisher: Equinox
Published: 2008
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9781845530440
Subjects: Stone implements.; Stone implements -- Analysis.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : the potential of ground stone studies / Yorke M. Rowan and Jennie R. Ebeling; title: Geological constraints on ground stone production and consumption in the southern Levant / Joan S. Schneider and Philip C. LaPorta; title: Discovery of a medieval Islamic industry for steatite cooking vessels in Egypt's eastern desert / James A. Harrell and V. Max Brown; title: Beyond the Mohs scale : raw material choice and the production of stone vases in a late Minoan context / Tristan Carter; title: Stones on stone : assessing the use of handstones as tools to process stone artifacts at PPNB Ba'ja in southern Jordan / Philipp M. Rassmann; title: A chip off the old millstone : grinding stone production and distribution in the early Bronze Age of the Negev / Yael Abadi-Reiss and Steven A. Rosen; title: The exchange of ground stone tools and vessels during the early Bronze Age in the southern Levant / Ianir Milevski; title: Craft production and the organization of ground stone technologies / Katherine I. Wright; title: Maize-grinding tools in prehispanic central Mexico / Martin Biskowski; title: Grinding stones and seeds of change : starch and phytoliths as evidence of plant food processing / Richard Fullagar, Judith Field and Lisa Kealhofer; title: Identifying lightly used polishing stones : experiments and implications / Martha Trenna Valado; title: Wear patterns on ground stone implements from Tel Yin'am / Harold A. Liebowitz; title: Variation in the organization of prehistoric milling technologies of the northern Mojave Desert, North America / Mark E. Basgall; title: Beyond the broken / Jenny L. Adams; title: Ground stone tools, refuse structure, and the life histories of residential buildings at Ayn abū Nukhayla, southern Jordan / Seiji Kadowaki; title: The changing face of ground stone studies in the American Great Basin / Renee Corona Kolvet; title: Basalt bowls in early Bronze IA shaft tombs at Bab edh-Dhra' : production, placement and symbol / R. Thomas Schaub; title: Stone alabastra in western Anatolia / C.H. Roosevelt; title: Carving luxury : late classic white stone vase traditions in Mesoamerica / Christina Luke; title: Stone vessel production caves on the eastern slope of Mount Scopus, Jerusalem / David Amit, Jon Seligman and Irina Zilberbod; title: Beyond provenance analysis : the movement of basaltic artefacts through a social landscape / Graham Rutter and Graham Philip; title: New insights from old stones : a survey of ground stones studies / Jane Peterson.