By Anna Stroulia
Regardless of their ubiquitous presence between prehistoric is still in Greece, flooring stone instruments have not begun to draw an identical form of cognizance as produce other different types of archaeological fabric, reminiscent of pottery or lithics. versatile Stones offers an in depth research of the cloth came across in the course of the excavations at Franchthi Cave, Peloponnese, Greece. nearly 500 instruments, the uncooked fabric used for his or her manufacture, in addition to the byproducts of such manufacture have been came across. so much of this assortment comes from the Neolithic element of the site—including a small variety of Palaeolithic and Mesolithic cases—with numerous the studied instruments indicating a number of makes use of. Anna Stroulia sees the multifunctional personality of those instruments as a wakeful selection that displays a versatile angle of instrument makers and clients towards instruments and uncooked fabrics. A CD-Rom with 209 extra plates is incorporated.
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Extra info for Flexible Stones: Ground Stone Tools from Franchthi Cave, Fascicle 14, Excavations at Franchthi Cave, Greece
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None of them was excavated on Paralia. All come from stratified deposits inside the cave (trenches FAN, FAS, H1A, H1B, H2A, and G1). ’ I follow here the phasing scheme designed for the Pre-Neolithic lithics by Perlès. She defined 10 lithic phases named 0 through IX (Perlès 1987, 1990). 1. 2. The drawing of one specimen appears in Figure 3. Photographs of a few specimens are found in Plates 1–4 on the CD, folder: Pre-Neolithic/Palaeolithic. The bedrock floor was never reached by the excavations inside the cave, but the lowest excavated deposits (in FAS and HIB) are dated before 33,000–40,000 Cal.
The surface of the stone is covered with striations from the shaping and has a greasy luster…All are fragmentary but the following dimensions can be determined. 2 cm. 1 cm in depth (Solecki and Solecki 1970:831–832 and Figure 1:A–C). The Soleckis consider these specimens as too soft and smooth to have been used as abraders or smoothers. On the basis of ethnographic evidence, they suggest instead that these may have been suitable for a use as shaft straighteners. As heat resistant stones, the chlorite, or similar soft materials of which these tools are made, is especially suited to undergo the heating that shaft straightening involves.
As Runnels suggested, the original intact tool may have been similar to those reported by Rose Solecki from Zawi Chemi Shanidar and Shanidar Cave under the name of ‘trough querns’ (Runnels 1981:100–101; Solecki 1969:989). Solecki believes that these querns may have been used for processing wild grain and, to a smaller extent, acorns (1969:993). FS 551 was probably suitable for grinding the above foods, as well as others, such as lentils and dried fish. The paucity of Upper Mesolithic botanical remains, however, may be an indication that at least plant foods were not ground with this tool.