Bread for the People: The Archaeology of Mills and Milling: Proceedings of a colloquium held in the British School at Rome 4th - 7th November 2009

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This book presents the proceedings of the 'Bread for the people: The Archaeology of Mills and Milling' colloquium held in the British School at Rome 4th - 7th November 2009. Cover Frontispiece Title Copyright Contents List of contributors Foreword Introduction Why dig a millstone quarry? The case of Claix in the south-west of France (5th-19th centuries) Les meules en pays Minyanka (Mali): étude des carrières et techniques de production actuelles The hand-mills of Olymbos: an ethnographical study of their form, function and role in a Greek village Visualising the Invisible: re-discovering the ancient grinding stone quarries of the Aswan West Bank, Egypt Manufacturing rotary querns in the 4th century BC fortified settlement of Els Vilars (Arbeca, Catalonia, Spain) Still using your saddle quern? A compilation of the oldest known rotary querns in western Europe The earliest rotary querns in southern England Late La Tène Rotary querns found in the Oppidum of Heidengraben: a new type of volcanic rock and its origin First century querns of the Roman army in the light of modern texts A newly identified milling artefact from Roman Britain Pompeian millstones in France Pompeian style mills in Britain Hertfordshire Puddingstone querns - working with a difficult rock Hand and ‘donkey’ mills in North African farms Volcanic quern and millstone quarries in Cabo de Gata (Almería) and Campo de Calatrava (Ciudad Real), Spain Querns as markers for the determination of Medieval northern European trade spheres Of cakes and kings: bread-making in early Medieval England Les meulières de l’Ile de Minorque: trente-neuf sites industriels d’Époque Andalousí (Xè – XIIIè siècles) Rotary hand-querns in volcanic stone in the Medieval Mediterranean Production, commercialisation et qualitè de meules à main et de meules à moulin dans l’Italie médiévale: un bilan de la recherche historique et archéologique Ore grinding in the Middle Ages: the example of Brandes-en-Oisans (Isère, France) The study of America’s millstone quarries: past research and future directions La fabrication d’une meule en emeri et ciment magnésien La Fouille du Moulin à vent de Roissy-en-France (Val-d’Oise), France Millstone Quarries in Southern Spain: preliminary pinpointing of provenance and production - exploiting the internet The quern and millstone quarry of the Rambla Honda, Almeria, Spain Quern and millstone quarries in the north of Spain Seven thousand years of millstone production in the Serre Mountain range of the French Jura The widening use of Lodsworth Stone: Neolithic to Romano-British quern distribution The rise and fall of the Hyllestad millstone quarry landscape, western Norway The function of querns The millstone quarries in Hyllestad: an arena of research and education Les meules de l’Esterel (Var, France) un diagnostic par SIG