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Grinding grounds: Function and distribution of grinding

2017.1.12 Grinding stones are sometimes found as isolated artefacts but more commonly as minor components of archaeological sites, defined in site registers as lithic scatters or lithic concentrations that are dominated by flakes and cores.

Grindstones - The Australian Museum

Grinding stones used to grind seeds and nuts have been found throughout Australia, particularly in arid and semi-arid areas where Indigenous people were reliant on grass

Grindstone - Wikipedia

A grindstone, also known as grinding stone, is a sharpening stone used for grinding or sharpening ferrous tools, used since ancient times. Tools are sharpened by the stone's abrasive qualities that remove material from the tool through friction in order to create a fine edge. Similar to sandpaper, each stone has a different grit that will result in sharper or duller tools. In Australia, Aboriginal peoples

(PDF) Grinding grounds: Function and distribution of grinding

2016.2.1 In a functional study of 48 stones with macroscopic traces of surface smoothing, we identify 46 grinding stones, including eight near-complete implements

Fact sheet: Aboriginal grinding stones - First Peoples

Grinding stones are slabs of stone that Aboriginal people used to grind and crush different materials. Bulbs, berries, seeds, insects and many other things were ground between a

What did grinding stones grind? New light on Early

2015.1.2 Thanks to high-precision analyses of use-wear and starch residue, the authors show that early Neolithic people were mainly using these stones to process

Grinding-stone implements in the eastern African Pastoral

Grinding-slabs have been recovered from a number of Pastoral Neolithic sites across East Africa such as Narosura, the Nakuru Burial Site, Crescent Island (Main), Njoro River Cave, Keringet Cave, Egerton Cave, Prospect

65,000-years of continuous grinding stone use at Madjedbebe

2022.7.11 8 Citations 72 Altmetric Metrics Abstract Grinding stones and ground stone implements are important technological innovations in later human evolution,

3 Hearths, Grinding Stones, and Households: Rethinking

2008.10.8 The patterning of grinding stones and house structures is consistent with Weismantel's model: the greater the number of structures, the greater the number of

Place Identification ABORIGINAL GRINDING STONES

Where are They Found? Grinding stones are usually found where Aboriginal people lived and camped. For example, they have been found in shell middens and rock shelters, and