The stone of life : the archaeology of querns, mills and flour production in Europe up to c. AD 500 / David Peacock ; with illustrations by Chris Green

• Superior document: Southampton monographs in archaeology : New series 1
• VerfasserIn: Peacock, David P. S. 1939-2015
• IllustratorIn: Green, Chris
• Place / Publishing House: Southampton : The Highfield Press Southampton, [2013]
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Southampton monographs in archaeology : New series 1
• Classification: 15.19 - Vor- und Frühgeschichte
• Physical Description: xvi, 220 Seiten; Illustrationen, Karten
• Notes: Literaturangaben Seite 192-213

This book is about the archaeology querns and mills, simple stone instruments which are vital to survival in a society which adopts bread as its staple. They become the ‘stones of life’, an essential ingredient in the subsistence strategy of settled agriculturalists. 0It might be expected that as querns and mills are commonplace in archaeology, they would be key artefacts, studied exhaustively. Alas, this is far from the case. They have been woefully neglected, although in the last decade there has been burgeoning interest throughout much of Europe and because of this, it is timely to survey the subject, adopting a broad viewpoint. A study on this scale has not been attempted since the late nineteenth century when Bennett and Elton published their magisterial work on the History of corn milling.0