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Author Pedersen, Patrick Nørskov

Title Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research
Published Oxford : Archaeopress, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (274 p.)
Contents Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright Information -- Contents -- 1. Making Flour In Palaeolithic Europe. New Perspectives On Nutritional Challenges From Plant Food Processing -- Table 1: Radiocarbon dating of the Gravettian layers containing the ground stone tools object of the analysis. -- Table 2: Possible origin of the starch grains found on the tools. -- Table 3: Chemical and nutritional composition of oak, cattail, emmer and oat meals (g/100g fw)*
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 -- Table 1: Shubayqa 1 dating, for detailed overview see (Richter et al. 2017). -- Table 2: Shubayqa 6 Dating (based on (Yeomans et al. 2019). -- Table 3: Assemblage overview. -- Table 4: Strategies: Action, gestures and resulting tool shape and surface morphology based on observations of the Shubayqa material. -- Table 5: Diversity of strategies when including all tools, i.e. fragments etc
Table 6: Diversity of strategies when including only complete tools. -- 3. Starch Grain Analysis Of Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik And Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) Contexts: Experimental Grinding Tests Of Cereals And Legumes -- Table 1: Details of the grinding activities undertaken. -- Table 2: Details of the dehusking activities undertaken
Table 3: Parameters of other experimental studies where grinding and/or dehusking was carried out with the aim to study starch grain modifications. Note: Pagan-Jimenez et al. (2017) was not included here as they grated manioc and sweet potatoes followed b -- 5. Macro-Lithic Tools And The Late Neolithic Economy In The Middle Morava Valley, Serbia -- Table 1: Middle Morava valley: number of rock types according to the settlements. -- Table 2: Middle Morava valley: number of tool types according to the settlements
Table 3: Middle Morava Valley: Results of the first and second analytical steps according to settlements. -- 6. The Ecological Significance of Ground-stone axes in the Later Stone Age (LSA) of West-Central Africa -- Table 1: A chronological overview of the archaeological phases and environmental conditions of the sites discussed in the text. -- Table 2: The names of ground-stone axes in some cultures in West Africa. -- 7. The New Oasis: Potential of Use-Wear for Studying Plant Exploitation in the Gobi Desert Neolithic
Summary The papers in this volume focus especially on the relationship between ground stone artefacts and foodways and include archaeological and ethnographic case studies ranging from the Palaeolithic to the current era, and geographically from Africa to Europe and Asia
Notes Description based upon print version of record
Table 1: Descriptive framework for the micropolish observed at high magnifications
Subject Tools, Prehistoric -- Congresses
Prehistoric peoples -- Food -- Congresses
Prehistoric archaeology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Archaeology.
Prehistoric peoples -- Food.
Tools, Prehistoric.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings.
Form Electronic book
Author Jörgensen-Lindahl, Anne
Sørrensen, Mikkel
ISBN 9781789694796
1789694795