Shoemaker, A;
Davies, MIJ;
(2019)
Grinding-stone implements in the eastern African Pastoral Neolithic.
Azania: Archaeological Research in Africa
10.1080/0067270X.2019.1619284.
(In press).
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Abstract
Grinding-stone tools are a poorly utilised source of archaeological information in eastern Africa. Their presence is noted in multiple contexts, including both domestic and funerary, yet the inferences drawn from them are often limited. This short review paper presents existing information on grinding-stone tools (and stone bowls) from Pastoral Neolithic (PN) contexts in eastern Africa. Data on the diverse grinding-stone tool assemblages of the Pastoral Neolithic have been compiled with a focus on details of morphology and spatial, temporal and contextual distribution. Summarising what is known (and, perhaps more importantly, what is not known) about grinding-stones in the Pastoral Neolithic, this paper serves as a reminder that the function of grinding-stone tools was neither singular nor their significance simplistic.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Grinding-stone implements in the eastern African Pastoral Neolithic |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1080/0067270X.2019.1619284 |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1080/0067270X.2019.1619284 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2019 The Author(s). Published by Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, and is not altered, transformed, or built upon in any way. |
| Keywords: | grinding-stone tools, Pastoral Neolithic, funerary archaeology, eastern Africa |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of the Built Environment > UCL Institute for Global Prosperity |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10077825 |
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