Articles from the 2nd Meeting of the Association for Ground Stone Tools Research

• Ethnogrinding Database: A tool to collect and connect worldwide information on ethnological and ethnoarchaeological hand-milling systems

  Natàlia Alonso, Georgina Prats, Themis Roustanis, Panos Tokmakides, Soultana Maria Valamoti

  23 p.

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• Evolution and function of the Chinese carved horse hitching stone post

  Ke Bai

  14 p.

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• Ground stone technology in context: Consumption of grinding tools and social practice at Neolithic Avgi, NW Greece

  Tasos Bekiaris

  24 p.

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• Processing plants for food: Experimental grinding within the ERC-project PLANTCULT

  Maria Bofill, Danai Chondrou, Antoni Palomo, Hara Procopiou, Soultana Maria Valamotti

  26 p.

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• Manufacture, use and management of macro-lithic resources in the Bronze Age settlement of Bruszczewo (Poland)

  Selina Delgado-Raack, Jutta Kneisel, Janusz Czebreszuk, Johannes Müller

  26 p.

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• Ground stone tools from the copper production site Al-Khashbah, Sultanate of Oman

  Stephanie Döpper

  24 p.

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• The Olynthus mill in the Alps: New hypotheses from two unidentified millstones discovered in Veneto region (Italy)

  Denis Francisci

  20 p.

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• Limestone millstones: Facies, provenance and use of sandy to pure limestones in France

  Gilles Fronteau, François Boyer, Luc Jaccottey, Vincent Le Quellec, Stéphanie Lepareux-Couturier, Annabelle Milleville, Cécile Monchablon, Boris Robin, Paul Picavet

  20 p.

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• Economy and status of Neolithic to Early Bronze age sites in the Southern Caucasus during the 6th‐3rd mill. BCE: The evidence from ground stone tools

  Caroline Hamon

  18 p.

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• Tool-use experiments to determine the function of an incised ground stone artefact with potential symbolic significance

  Elspeth Hayes, Caroline Spry, Richard Fullagar, Anna Tuechler, Petra Schell, Megan Goulding

  17 p.

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• Rock procurement and use during the Middle Neolithic: The macrolithic tools of Dambach-la-Ville (Alsace, France)

  Florent Jodry, Marion Delloul, Christophe Croutsch, Philippe Duringer, Gilles Fronteau

  13 p.

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• Men at work: Grinding stone production by the experts and others in northern Ethiopia

  Laurie Nixon-Darcus, Yemane Meresa

  24 p.

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• Red sandstone as raw material of Baden culture (Late Copper Age) grinding stones (Balatonőszöd - Temetői dűlő site, Hungary), with a review of the red sandstone formations of SW Hungary

  Bálint Péterdi

  29 p.

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• From near and far: Stone procurement and exchange at Çukuriçi Höyük in Western Anatolia

  Christoph Schwall, Michael Brandl, Tatjana M. Gluhak, Bogdana Milić, Lisa Betina, Lasse Sørensen, Danilo Wolf, Maria M. Martinez, Barbara Horejs

  25 p.

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• Plant foods, stone tools and food preparation in prehistoric Europe: An integrative approach in the context of ERC funded project PLANTCULT

  Soultana Maria Valamoti, Danai Chondrou, Tasos Bekiaris, Ismini Ninou, Natalia Alonso, Maria Bofill, Maria Ivanova, Sofia Laparidou, Calla McNamee, Antoni Palomo, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Georgina Prats, Hara Procopiou, Georgia Tsartsidou

  21 p.

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• Lava rotary querns of ‘Iron Age type’ in Roman times

  Stefan Wenzel

  40 p.

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• The earliest transverse grooved stones of Eurasia: Near Eastern distribution, types and chronology

  Irina Usacheva

  20 p.

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