scholarly journals Unravelling ground stone life histories> the spatial organization of stone tools and human activities at LN Makriyalos, Greece

2007 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 289-297 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christina Tsoraki
Keyword(s):  
Human Activities ◽  
Social Practice ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Northern Greece ◽  
Ground Stone ◽  
Communal Areas

Unlike previous studies of ground stone technology in the Greek Neolithic, this paper follows a more contextualised approach by looking at contexts of deposition of ground stone from Late Neolithic Makriyalos, Northern Greece. The patterns attested in the distribution of ground stone objects between domestic and communal areas will be discussed in terms of the spatial and social contexts of tool use, curation and deposition, contributing to wider discussions about the way acts of production, consumption and discard were structured within different contexts of social practice.

scholarly journals Ground stone industry from Pericei-Keller tag. A secondary production centre?

2019 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 52-63
Author(s):  
Mihai Dunca ◽  
Sanda Băcueț Crișan
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Production ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Port Site ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Working Process ◽  
North West ◽  
Neolithic Site ◽  
Ground Stone ◽  
Stone Industry

This article analyses ground stone discoveries from the late neolithic site of Pericei located in north-west of Romania, in Șimleu Depression. Combined characteristics of chisels and adzes in working process are discussed along with their context, especially those connected to stone working: the layer, dwellings and pebble agglomerations. We conclude that Pericei was a production center for stone chisels, appeared to supply the demand that until then was satisfied by Suplac/Porț site that continued to produce ground stone tools for a longer period.

scholarly journals Ground stone technology in context: Consumption of grinding tools and social practice at Neolithic Avgi, NW Greece

2020 ◽  
Vol 7 (3) ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Tasos Bekiaris
Keyword(s):  
Social Practice ◽  
Raw Materials ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Social Identities ◽  
Daily Routine ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Ground Stone ◽  
Special Events ◽  
Northwestern Greece ◽  
By Products

Excavations at the Neolithic site of Avgi (Middle-Late Neolithic, circa 5700-4500 cal. BCE) in the Kastoria region, northwestern Greece, brought to light one of the largest ground stone assemblages known from Neolithic Greece. More than 8000 ground stone tools and objects, raw materials and by-products comprise a valuable record for investigating various aspects of ground stone technology (production, consumption, discard), while their rich contextual information provides an ideal opportunity for addressing its significance for Neolithic societies. This paper examines the presence of grinding tools (stable grinding slabs and mobile grinders, their raw materials and by-products) within different spatiotemporal contexts (habitational phases, buildings, open areas, pits). Through the detailed technological and contextual analysis of the grinding artifacts we seek to explore different aspects of their biographies, related to their manufacture, use, maintenance, destruction and discard, within the context of a single Neolithic community. The goal is to shed light on the multiple ways through which the Neolithic society of Avgi consumed those technological products in various social occasions, practices and places (e.g., daily routine activities, special events of communal or symbolic character, individual houses and communal activity areas) and explore their role in the formation of social identities and the production of social meaning.

Ground stone tools and spatial organization at the Mesolithic site of font del Ros (southeastern Pre-Pyrenees, Spain)

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
pp. 209-224 ◽  
Author(s):  
Xavier Roda Gilabert ◽  
Jorge Martínez-Moreno ◽  
Rafael Mora Torcal
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Organization ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Ground Stone

scholarly journals The ground stone industry from Pericei-Keller tag. A secondary production centre?

2018 ◽  
Vol 45 ◽  
pp. 52-63
Author(s):  
Mihai Dunca ◽  
Sanda Băcueț Crișan
Keyword(s):  
Secondary Production ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Port Site ◽  
Late Neolithic ◽  
Working Process ◽  
North West ◽  
Neolithic Site ◽  
Ground Stone ◽  
Stone Industry

This article analyses ground stone discoveries from the late neolithic site of Pericei located in north-west of Romania, in Șimleu Depression. Combined characteristics of chisels and adzes in working process are discussed along with their context, especially those connected to stone working: the layer, dwellings and pebble agglomerations. We conclude that Pericei was a production center for stone chisels, appeared to supply the demand that until then was satisfied by Suplac/Porț site that continued to produce ground stone tools for a longer period.

Food-processing ground stone tools in the Greek Neolithic and Bronze Age. A synthesis of the published data

2020 ◽  
Vol 5 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasos Bekiaris ◽  
Danai Chondrou ◽  
Ismini Ninou ◽  
Soultana-Maria Valamoti
Keyword(s):  
Bronze Age ◽  
Food Processing ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Published Data ◽  
Ground Stone

A Classification System for Ground Stone Tools from the Prehistoric Levant.

Paléorient ◽  
1992 ◽  
Vol 18 (2) ◽  
pp. 53-81 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine Wright
Keyword(s):  
Classification System ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Ground Stone

scholarly journals Psychosis Without Meaning: Creating Modern Clinical Psychiatry, 1950 to 1980

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel T. Braslow
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Psychiatry ◽  
Life Histories ◽  
Psychotic Disorders ◽  
Clinical Care ◽  
Signs And Symptoms ◽  
Primary Treatment ◽  
Social Contexts ◽  
Clinical Practices ◽  
State Hospitals ◽  
1960S And 1970S

AbstractOver the last fifty years, American psychiatrists have embraced psychotropic drugs as their primary treatment intervention. This has especially been the case in their treatment of patients suffering from psychotic disorders such as schizophrenia. This focus has led to an increasing disregard for patients’ subjective lived-experiences, life histories, and social contexts. This transformation of American psychiatry occurred abruptly beginning in the late 1960s and 1970s. My essay looks the ways these major transformations played themselves out in everyday clinical practices of state hospital psychiatrists from 1950 to 1980. Using clinical case records from California state hospitals, I chronicle the ways institutional and ideological forces shaped the clinical care of patients with psychotic disorders. I show there was an abrupt rupture in the late 1960s, where psychiatrists’ concerns about the subjective and social were replaced by a clinical vision focused on a narrow set of drug-responsive signs and symptoms. Major political, economic, and ideological shifts occurred in American life and social policy that provided the context for this increasingly pharmacocentric clinical psychiatry, a clinical perspective that has largely blinded psychiatrists to their patients’ social and psychological suffering.

Ground-Stone Tools and Hunter-Gatherer Subsistence in Southwest Asia: Implications for the Transition to Farming

1994 ◽  
Vol 59 (2) ◽  
pp. 238-263 ◽  
Author(s):  
Katherine I. Wright
Keyword(s):  
Food Processing ◽  
Younger Dryas ◽  
Stone Tools ◽  
Plant Food ◽  
Southwest Asia ◽  
Processing Methods ◽  
Plant Foods ◽  
Ground Stone ◽  
Early Farming ◽  
Wild Cereals

Ground-stone tools and hunter-gatherer subsistence in late Pleistocene southwest Asia are examined in light of ethnographic and experimental data on processing methods essential for consumption of various plant foods. In general, grinding and pounding appear to be labor-intensive processing methods. In particular, the labor required to make wild cereals edible has been widely underestimated, and wild cereals were unlikely to have been “attractive” to foragers except under stress conditions. Levantine ground-stone tools were probably used for processing diverse plants. The earliest occurrence of deep mortars coincides with the glacial maximum, camp reoccupations, the onset of increasingly territorial foraging, and the earliest presently known significant samples of wild cereals. Two major episodes of intensification in plant-food processing can be identified in the Levant, coinciding respectively with the earliest evidence for sedentism (12,800-11,500 B.P.) and the transition to farming (11,500-9600 B.P.). The latter episode was characterized by rising frequencies of grinding tools relative to pounding tools, and suggests attempts to maximize nutritional returns of plants harvested from the limited territories characteristic of sedentary foraging and early farming. This episode was probably encouraged by the Younger Dryas, when density and storability of foods may have outweighed considerations of processing costs.

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