Grinding flour in Upper Palaeolithic Europe (25000 years bp)
2007; Cambridge University Press; Volume: 81; Issue: 314 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1017/s0003598x00095946
ISSN1745-1744
AutoresBiancamaria Aranguren, Roberto Becattini, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Anna Revedin,
Tópico(s)Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies
ResumoThe 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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