This is the abstract of a paper that I presented at the European Association of Archaeologists’ 2017 conference, held in Maastricht. The paper was part of a session I co-organised with Penny Foreman (University of Bournemouth) and Claudia Sciuto (University of Umea). The session was titled “Stone is the Storyteller – The materiality of stone through time (and mind)?” (the session description precedes the paper abstract). We asked contributors to consider how archaeologists interpret and present the agency of stone.