Grinding flour in Upper Palaeolithic Europe (25000 years bp)
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 7656345 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Biancamaria Aranguren (0000-0002-2387-8719, National Archaeological Museum, corresponding author), Roberto Becattini (University of Florence), M Mariotti Lippi (0000-0002-4820-2520, University of Florence), Anna Revedin (0000-0002-8302-3528, Italian Society of Periodontology and Implantology) |
| Year | 2007 |
| Volume | 81 |
| Issue | 314 |
| Pages | 845-855 |
| Publication date | 2007-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Antiquity (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0003598x00095946 |
| OpenAlex | W2252810147 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 57 |
| References cited | 17 |
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
Agricultural revolution · Agriculture · Archaeology · Biology · Geography · Grinding · Metallurgy · Starch · Stone Age · Archaeology and ancient environmental studies · Food Science · Materials Science · Pacific and Southeast Asian Studies · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology
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| Citations per year | 3,17 |
| Citation span | 2008 - 2025 (18) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 56 |