Cereals and pulses have formed staple foods for the populations of the European continent
ever since the emergence of agriculture, yet the ways in which they have been processed …

Abstract The Early Neolithic site Göbekli Tepe which has delivered the largest corpus of
grinding stones known by now in Northern Mesopotamia is used as a case study to test the …

Grinding and pounding implements are among the most widespread and most informative
artefacts when it comes to addressing questions related to plant exploitation, especially in …

The exploitation of cereal crops implies several working processes (eg preparation of land,
harvesting, selection of grain, subsequent use or disposal of the straw, storage and food …

Chinese millets (Setaria italica and Panicum miliaceum), first domesticated in north China,
were among the most important East Asian crops in the past. Previous studies have mainly …

The identification of the use of stone tools through use-wear analysis was one the major
methodological advances in Prehistoric Archaeology during the second half of the 20th …

From the earliest Neolithic in the Near East to the last Chalcolithic cultures in Western
Europe, certain flint tools have been used as sickles to harvest cereals. Such harvesting …

Although touch has occupied the lowest range in the scale of senses until the Renaissance
period in the Western World, tactile perception was pre-eminent in Antiquity when tactile …

This paper assesses a series of experimentally generated cereal fragments with the aim to
develop criteria for interpreting archaeological remains of ground cereals. Modern grain of …

This dissertation combines two different analytical methods, use wear and ancient starch
grain analysis, to investigate the uses of different types of grinding tools. The artefacts were …