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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"grinding stones"”.
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Mayan Metate Ethnoarchaeology
… sites in Mesoamerica. Unfortunately, grinding stones are understudied, and thus, not much is understood about them. Understanding that archaeology is based on the use of analogy to infer past life-ways, little work has been done to create analogies specifically for manos and metates. …
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Ancestral Pharmacopeias: A Paleoethnobotanical Assessment of Plant Use in the Western Free State, South Africa
… State, South Africa, yielded several partial grinding stones, possibly indicating an increase in the reliance on plant resources and signifying the economic, technological, and social shift from the Middle Stone Age to Later Stone Age. From October to December of 2011, I carried out an …
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Role of external fibrillation in pulp and paper properties
… An ultra-fine friction grinder consisting of two grinding stones was found to overcome the limitation related to conventional refiners. Using the grinder, it was possible to promote external fibrillation while keeping the internal fibrillation and curl constant. An increase in external fibrils …
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Regions and resources
… to the west. Other details concerning hearths, grinding stones and specialised flake tool manufacturing processes were found to vary along the great transect. Methods for measuring this regional variation are proposed in the form of Stone Technological Regions, Land Systems Divisions, Cultural …
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Regions and resources
… to the west. Other details concerning hearths, grinding stones and specialised flake tool manufacturing processes were found to vary along the great transect. Methods for measuring this regional variation are proposed in the form of Stone Technological Regions, Land Systems Divisions, Cultural …