Artigo Revisado por pares

Grinding flour in Upper Palaeolithic Europe (25000 years bp)

2007; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 81; Issue: 314 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1017/s0003598x00095946

ISSN

1745-1744

Autores

Biancamaria Aranguren, Roberto Becattini, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Anna Revedin,

Tópico(s)

Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies

Resumo

The authors have identified starch grains belonging to wild plants on the surface of a stone from the Gravettian hunter-gatherer campsite of Bilancino (Florence, Italy), dated to around 25000bp. The stone can be seen as a grindstone and the starch has been extracted from locally growing edible plants. This evidence can be claimed as implying the making of flour – and presumably some kind of bread – some 15 millennia before the local ‘agricultural revolution’.

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