The excavation of the 8000-year-old Hidden Valley village has highlighted the importance of
wild plant exploitation in the Mid-Holocene contexts of the Farafra Oasis. This site yielded …

The recovery of a seed grinding stone from human occupation layers dating to c. 31 ka in the
Haua Fteah cave on the coast of the Gebel Akhdar massif in northeast Libya sheds new light …

Abstract The North African region offers up essential data for the study of the origins of the
earliest forms of plant exploitation. Data available from several Saharan and coastal areas in …

Functional and technological analyses of grinding stone tools have long played a major role
in the characterization of such implements in the archaeological record. Likewise …

The Holocene hunter-gatherers of the Maghreb are characterized by extensive use of wild
plant resources; for food and for making containers, weapons and tools, ropes and fabrics …

Archaeological sites with surface hearths are a ubiquitous feature across the arid zones of
the Arabian interior. At Jebel Oraf, in the Jubbah basin of the Nefud Desert of northern …

The role of plants in the subsistence economy of pre-agricultural societies of the eastern
Sahara is poorly known because vegetal remains, except for wood charcoal, are seldom …

The functional study of ground stone artefacts and the analysis of charred plant remains
together demonstrate that plant foods played a significant role in the diets of Aboriginal …

It is often assumed that prehistoric grinding stones had been used for cereal processing, but
direct evidence is rare and ethnoarchaeological data indicate multiple tool functions. We …

This paper aims to offer an alternative approach to conventional (and often even non-
existent) studies of macrolithic or ground stone tools found in archaeological contexts. The …