That’s changing, though, as farmers, millers and chefs rally to reinvent a lost regional “grain economy ... circular grinding stones inside a building reconstructed after the original ...

Excavations in an Urartian castle of Cavustepe revealed a 2,700 year-old stone used in grinding grain products in eastern Van’s Gurpinar district. The rectangular stone, measuring 54 by 30 ...

This rotary quern of the disc type is made from a hard stone called schist. It was used to grind grain into flour for domestic purposes. The two circular stones fit together with the top mobile ...

but the mortar and pestle has been an invaluable tool since the Stone Age. Its durability and versatility have made it popular for everything, from grinding grain and spices to crushing pills.

The flat surface of the stone shows the kind of wear that would be produced by grinding the broken ... and later used as a type of hot coal, with grain residues still attached.

Archaeologists have uncovered new insights into the dietary habits of early farmers on the Danish island of Funen, dating back 5,500 years. At a Neolithic settlement, a team of international ...

It may be half of a 6,000-year-old quern stone, used by Neolithic people to grind grain into flour. Roundhouses, rock art, and burial mounds have also been found in the area, known as Balnaguard Glen.

A grinding stone and grain residue found within several cooking pits suggest Iron Age Germans used the plot of land as a bakery of their own around 800 B.C.E. Now, these artifacts are offering a ...

In my interview with Marion Milling owner Will Berndt for Kansas City Magazine, he explained that stone mills, like the Sana Grain Mill ... bought brand I’ve used. The grind may be slightly ...

The grinding stones also lacked clear wear marks from the pushing motions typically used for grinding grain. This absence of wear patterns supports the conclusion that the stones were not used for ...