Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis

Fernanda Neubauer has a PhD in Anthropology/Archaeology and is currently a Lecturer in Anthropology at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is also an Honorary Fellow in Anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Her research includes lithic analysis, fire-cracked rock, hot-rock cooking, foodways, gender, and decolonizing methods, as well as long-term projects carried out in collaboration with indigenous communities in North and South America. She is a lithic expert with approximately two decades of experience in archaeology. Her research, which won several professional awards, has contributed to the content of this manual.

• Chapter 1. Introduction to Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis.- Chapter 2. Understanding fire-cracked rock and background information.- Chapter 3. Determining Fire-Cracked Rock Function through Use-Alteration and Fracturing Patterns.- Chapter 4. Uses of Fire-Cracked Rock in Experimental Archaeology, Ethnography, and Ethnohistory.- Chapter 5. Fire-Cracked Rock as Archaeological Evidence of Cooking and Cuisine: Case Study from North America.- Chapter 6. Fire-Cracked Rock Technology and Life History: Reuse, Recycling, and Usage as Tools.