Contents

Abbreviations

ix

List of Illustrations

xi

Acknowledgements

xiii

Prologue

xv

Introduction

xix

1.

A New Ancient Petrography

2

2.

Does the Letter Matter?

46

3.

Breaking the Law

80

4.

Terminological Horizons

118

5.

The Presence of the Lithic

154

6.

Geophilia Entombed or the Boundary of a Woman’s Mind

196

7.

Solon’s Petromorphic Biopolitics

240

8.

I Am the Boundary of the Market

278

Bibliography

286