Proceedings of the 3rd Meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research

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.

Ground Stone Tools and Past Foodways brings together a selection of papers presented at the 3rd meeting of the Association of Ground Stone Tools Research, which was held at the University of Copenhagen in 2019. Ground stone artefacts are one of the most enduring classes of material culture: first used by Palaeolithic gatherer-hunters, they are still used regularly by people in many parts of the world to grind, mash and pulverize plants, meat and minerals. As such, ground stone artefacts provide a well preserved record at the nexus of interaction between humans, plants and animals. 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. They reflect the current state of the art in ground stone tool research and highlight the many ways in which foodways can be studied through holistic examinations of ground stone artefacts.

1. Making Flour in Palaeolithic Europe. New Perspectives on Nutritional Challenges From Plant Food Processing - Anna Revedin, Biancamaria Aranguren, Silvia Florindi, Emanuele Marconi, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Annamaria Ronchitelli 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 - Patrick Norskov Pedersen 3. Starch Grain Analysis of Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) Contexts: Experimental Grinding Tests of Cereals and Legumes - Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, and Aurelie Salavert 4. Mapping Life-Cycles: Exploring Grinding Technologies And The Use Of Space At Late/Final Neolithic Kleitos, Northern Greece - D. Chondrou and S.M. Valamoti 5. Macro-Lithic Tools and the Late Neolithic Economy in the Middle Morava Valley, Serbia - Vesna Vuckovic 6. The Ecological Significance of Ground-stone axes in the Later Stone Age (LSA) of West-Central Africa - Orijemie Emuobosa Akpo 7. The New Oasis: Potential of Use-Wear for Studying Plant Exploitation in the Gobi Desert Neolithic - Laure Dubreuil, Angela Evoy, and Lisa Janz 8. Above and Below: The Late Chalcolithic Ground Stone Tool Assemblage of Tsomet Shoket - Daniela Alexandrovsky, Ron Be'eri and Danny Rosenberg 9. Grinding technologies in the Bronze Age of northern Greece: New data from the sites of Archontiko and Angelochori - Tasos Bekiaris, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Christos L. Stergiou and Soultana-Maria Valamoti 10. Pounding Amid the Cliffs: Stationary Facilities and Cliff Caves in the Judean Desert, Israel - Uri Davidovich 11. Quernstones in Social Context: the early medieval baker's house from Wroclaw - Ewa Lisowska 12. Stone Mortars: A Poorly Known Component of Material Culture, Used in France Since the Iron Age. Including Recent Data for Late Medieval Trading Reaching the Baltic - Geert Verbrugghe 13. Telling Textures: Surface Textures May Reveal Which Grains Were Ground in Northern Ethiopia - Laurie Nixon-Darcus 14. The Bored Stone, Nougouil: Weighted Digging Sticks in Ethiopia - Jerome Robitaille, 1. Making Flour in Palaeolithic Europe. New Perspectives on Nutritional Challenges From Plant Food Processing – Anna Revedin, Biancamaria Aranguren, Silvia Florindi, Emanuele Marconi, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Annamaria Ronchitelli 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 – Patrick Nørskov Pedersen 3. Starch Grain Analysis of Early Neolithic (Linearbandkeramik and Blicquy/Villeneuve-Saint-Germain) Contexts: Experimental Grinding Tests of Cereals and Legumes – Clarissa Cagnato, Caroline Hamon, and Aurélie Salavert 4. Mapping Life-Cycles: Exploring Grinding Technologies And The Use Of Space At Late/Final Neolithic Kleitos, Northern Greece – D. Chondrou and S.M. Valamoti 5. Macro-Lithic Tools and the Late Neolithic Economy in the Middle Morava Valley, Serbia – Vesna Vučković 6. The Ecological Significance of Ground-stone axes in the Later Stone Age (LSA) of West-Central Africa – Orijemie Emuobosa Akpo 7. The New Oasis: Potential of Use-Wear for Studying Plant Exploitation in the Gobi Desert Neolithic – Laure Dubreuil, Angela Evoy, and Lisa Janz 8. Above and Below: The Late Chalcolithic Ground Stone Tool Assemblage of Tsomet Shoket – Daniela Alexandrovsky, Ron Be’eri and Danny Rosenberg 9. Grinding technologies in the Bronze Age of northern Greece: New data from the sites of Archontiko and Angelochori – Tasos Bekiaris, Lambrini Papadopoulou, Christos L. Stergiou and Soultana-Maria Valamoti 10. Pounding Amid the Cliffs: Stationary Facilities and Cliff Caves in the Judean Desert, Israel – Uri Davidovich 11. Quernstones in Social Context: the early medieval baker’s house from Wrocław – Ewa Lisowska 12. Stone Mortars: A Poorly Known Component of Material Culture, Used in France Since the Iron Age. Including Recent Data for Late Medieval Trading Reaching the Baltic – Geert Verbrugghe 13. Telling Textures: Surface Textures May Reveal Which Grains Were Ground in Northern Ethiopia – Laurie Nixon-Darcus 14. The Bored Stone, Nougouil: Weighted Digging Sticks in Ethiopia – Jérôme Robitaille