[SunkenCiv]

Two of the 10th-grade students participating in the dig where the grindstone was found [Photo credit: Yoav Lerer -- Israel Antiquities Authority]

The 900-year-old oil lamp that was shaken loose when a section of a beachside cliff crumbled [Photo credit: Yuli Schwartz -- Israel Antiquities Authority]

[rjsimmon]

Was someone’s nose attached to it?

[GraceG]

40,000 year old grind stone, preposterous! human civ is only 8 thousand years old.....

Or so all my idiot college professors would say...

[Dutch Boy]

I didn’t get how they aged the stone.

[MUDDOG]

Caveman Meal bread.

[bgill]

If you look real close, you'll see:

[bunkerhill7]

If there`s a grindstone, there`s gotta be some ancient swords needing sharpening in there somewhere near the lamp under a bushel basket.

[dfwgator]

Was there a nose nearby?

[TXnMA]

Ah! Here in Tejas, we'd call that a "Mano". I was expecting the stationary part -- which we'd call a< I>"Metate".

FWIW, many "Manos" around here show signs of a dual role as a (hard) hammerstone for knapping flint...