Grinding flour in Upper Palaeolithic Europe (25 000 years bp)

Antiquity

Volumn 81, Issue 314, 2007, Pages 845-855

  Aranguren, Biancamaria ^a   Becattini, Roberto ^b   Lippi, Marta Mariotti ^b   Revedin, Anna ^c  

^a Laboratory of Analyses   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c Italian Institute of Prehistory and Protohistory   (Italy)

Author keywords

Cat's tail; Flour; Gravettian; Grindstone; Reedmace; Starch; Typha

Indexed keywords

GRINDING; PALEOLITHIC; STARCH;

EURASIA; EUROPE;

TYPHA;

EID: 37449023584     PISSN: 0003598X     EISSN: 0003598X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/S0003598X00095946     Document Type: Article

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