Functional analysis of mesolithic groundstone tools

磨石工具在重建史前饮食、土地使用和定居行为方面发挥着关键作用。它们被用来准备食物、制造工具、建筑材料或作为导热材料。该项目从选定的Find库存中调查磨石工具的功能。分析的重点是原材料、形貌、使用磨损和残留物以及工具使用的实验。站点内的空间调查将结果与背景联系起来。该项目旨在对这些常用的多功能石材进行功能和经济性的改造，目前还没有得到足够的重视。它们将提高我们在土地利用、资源管理、食物准备、木材、骨头和鹿角等有机材料的加工、火的利用和定居点组织方面的知识。在世界范围内，这些行为模式的特点是在全新世早期发生了深刻的变化，在欧洲的中石器时代仍有大麦的记载。

Ground stone tools play a key role in the reconstruction of prehistoric diet, land use and settlement behaviour. They were used for food preparation, manufacturing of tools, building material or as heat conductor. The project investigates the function of ground stone tools from selected find inventories. Analysis focus on raw material, morphology, use wear and residues as well as on experiments on tool use. Intra-site spatial investigations contextualize the results. The project aims on reconstructions of function and economy of these commonly and multifunctionally used stones, which still receive little attention. They will improve our knowledge about land use, resource management, food preparation, processing of organic materials like wood, bone and antler, utilization of fire and settlement organisation. Worldwide these behavioural patterns are characterized by profound changes within the early Holocene that which remain barley documented for the Mesolithic in Europe.