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From both ethnoarchaeological and ethnogenesis perspectives, the complete cycle of quarrying, manufacture, trade, and uses of stone tools and symbolic stones, and the creation of other kinds of material goods and associated behavior within cultural systems of different language-…

The goal of this dissertation is to identify and reconstruct activity areas in Middle and Late Bronze Age (ca. 2000–1200 BCE) temples and sanctuaries in the southern Levant by analyzing the ground stone artifacts found in them. Chapter 1 reviews the history of research of Middle…

In the New England Maritimes region, and especially New Hampshire, small lithic sites or scatters represent the most prevalent Paleoamerican site type identified on the landscape in the course of cultural resource management (CRM) and research activities. Correspondingly, distri…

The Levantine Mousterian industry occurs between 45-100 along the Mediterranean coast of Southwest Asia and is associated with the fossil remains of both Neandertals and early anatomically-modern humans. Replicative experiments provide a framework for inferring patterns of Levan…

The Early Chalcolithic site of Çatalhöyük West has become increasingly well studied over the past 15 years. This project examines the ground stone tools from the West Mound, an artifact type that holds much potential but has been historically understudied in archaeology. For thi…