Vol. 3 No. 3 (2016): Proceedings of the 1st Meeting of the Association for Ground Stone Tools Research

Presented at the 1st Meeting of the Association for Ground Stone Tools Research

• Introduction. Leave no stone unturned: Perspectives on ground stone artefact research

  Danny Rosenberg, Yorke Rowan, Tatjana Gluhak

  1-15

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• Stone pedestalled vessels from Tel Tsaf, a Middle Chalcolithic site in the Central Jordan Valley, Israel

  Marina Bekker, Yosef Garfinkel

  17-29

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• The life-history of basalt ground stone tools from early urban domestic contexts: A chronicle from the EBA III of Tell es-Safi/Gath, Israel

  Jeremy A. Beller, Haskel J. Greenfield, Itzhaq Shai, Aren M. Maeir

  31-55

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• Macrolithic tools for mining and primary processing of metal ores from the site of Grotta della Monaca (Calabria, Italy)

  Francesco Breglia, Isabella Caricola, Felice Larocca

  57-76

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• Lipid residues preserved in sheltered bedrock features at Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument, New Mexico

  Tammy Buonasera

  78-101

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• Ground stone tool assemblages at the end of the Chalcolithic period: A preliminary analysis of the Late Chalcolithic sites in the Fazael Valley

  Haggai Cohen-Klonymus, Shay Bar

  103-123

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• Bronze Age cereal processing in Southern Iberia: A material approach to the production and use of grinding equipment

  Selina Delgado-Raack, Roberto Risch

  125-145

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• Cupules and the creation of the Tewa Pueblo world

  Samuel Duwe

  147-168

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• Raw material variability as archaeological tools: Preliminary results from a geochemical study of the basalt vessel workshop at Iron Age Tel Hazor, Israel

  Tatjana Gluhak, Danny Rosenberg, Jennie Ebeling

  169-189

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• The ground stone assemblage of a metal workers community: An unexplored dimension of Iron Age copper production at Timna

  Aaron Greener, Erez Ben-Yosef

  191-220

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• The function of Early Natufian grooved basalt artefacts from el-Wad Terrace, Mount Carmel, Israel: Preliminary results of a use-wear analysis

  Iris Groman-Yaroslavski, Danny Rosenberg, Reuven Yeshurun, Daniel Kaufman, Mina Weinstein-Evron

  221-242

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• Technology and function of grooved abraders in the early Neolithic of northwestern Europe

  Caroline Hamon

  243-259

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• The ground stone components of drills in the ancient Near East: Sockets, flywheels, cobble weights, and drill bits

  David Ilan

  261-277

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• Maids at the grindstone: A comparative study of New Kingdom Egypt grain grinders

  Elizabeth Lang

  279-289

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• Ground stone percussion tools from Maltese Islands

  Felice Larocca

  291-300

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• Grooved stone tools from Calabria region (Italy): Archaeological evidence and research perspectives

  Felice Larocca, Francesco Breglia

  301-312

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• The Iron Age copper industrial complex: A preliminary study of the role of ground stone tools at Khirbat en-Nahas, Jordan

  Thomas E. Levy, Megan Bettilyon, Margie M. Burton

  313-335

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• A grid-like incised pattern inside a Natufian bedrock mortar, Raqefet Cave, Israel

  Dani Nadel, Danny Rosenberg

  337-257

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• Plant use from the grinding stones’ viewpoint: Phytolith analyses from Aeneolithic Monjukli Depe, Turkmenistan

  Birgül Öğüt

  359-377

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• Preliminary analysis of the Late Natufian ground stone from Shubayqa 1, Jordan

  Patrick Nørskov Pedersen, Tobias Richter, Amaia Arranz-Otaegui

  379-402

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• Querns and mills during Roman times at the northern frontier of the Roman Empire (Belgium, Northern France, Southern Netherlands, Western Germany): Unraveling geological and geographical provenances, a multidisciplinary research project

  Sibrecht Reniere, Wim De Clercq, Roland Dreesen, Eric Goemaere, Gilles Fronteau, Tatjana Gluhak, Else Hartoch, Paul Picavet

  403-428

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• The ground stone industry of the Mursi of Maki, Ethiopia: Ethnoarchaeological research on milling and crushing equipment (technique and function)

  Jérôme Robitaille

  429-456

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• Conventions in fresh water fishing in the prehistoric southern Levant: The evidence from the study of Neolithic Beisamoun notched pebbles

  Danny Rosenberg, Marva Agnon, Daniel Kaufman

  457-478

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• Mongolian “Neolithic” and Early Bronze Age ground stone tools from the northern edge of the Gobi Desert

  Joan S. Schneider, Tserendagva Yadmaa, Thomas C. Hart, Arlene M. Rosen, Annelise Spiro

  479-497

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• The organization of basanite bifacial production at Giv’at Kipod Quarry, Israel: Towards an ‘Alyawara Day’ model of extraction

  Ron Shimelmitz, Danny Rosenberg

  499-521

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• The use of stone at Ohalo II, a 23,000 year old site in the Jordan Valley, Israel

  Polina Spivak, Dani Nadel

  523-552

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• An experimental approach to ground stone tool manufacture

  Andrea Squitieri, David Eitam

  553-564

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• Roman whetstone production in northern Gaul (Belgium and northern France)

  Aurélie Thiébaux, Marc Feller, Bruno Duchêne, Eric Goemaere

  565-587

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• Transverse grooved artefacts from southwestern Asia and northern Eurasia: Common traits and the reconstruction of function

  Irina Usacheva

  589-606

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