Abstract
Abstract Grooved stones appear in the Levantine sequence during the Natufian culture. Little attention was paid to these tools as long as they were considered polishing devices for bone tools. More recently some interest was aroused when they were viewed as possible arrow shaft straighteners. Nevertheless both interpretations suffer from lack of consistency since they are based mainly on ethnographic comparisons and modern experiments. This paper reports on a tentative chemical characterisation of residues preserved on one such tool which demonstrates the feasibility of analyses allowing interpretations based on the study of individual archaeological objects.
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