Fire-Cracked Rock Analysis: A Guide to Function, Cooking and Interpretation

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.