Pavlů, Ivan et al.: New Perspectives on Querns in Neolithic Societies, edited by Caroline Hamon and Jan Graefe, Heidelberg: Propylaeum, 2017 (Archäologische Berichte, Volume 23). https://doi.org/10.11588/propylaeum.249.331
The print publication was published in 2008 by the Selbstverlag der Deutschen Gesellschaft für Ur- und Frühgeschichte e.V. (DGUF). ISBN 978-3-7749-3607-2.
Since the time of the first Neolithic societies, humans have processed the corn of the crops into flour by means of querns. Domestication and breeding of animals as well as cultivation and processing of crops constitute the basis of agrarian living. Initially within the past fifteen years, fundamental aspects of plant processing could be clarified. Research on grinding stones and hones contributes to the understanding and knowledge of Neolithic forms of economy and social organisation. Recent more or less regional studies provide new data that enable conclusions on exchange systems of raw materials, of economic basics and on the social and symbolic meaning of grinding stones.
The articles published in this issue result from a conference held in September 2007 at the 13th annual meeting of the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) in Zadar (Croatia).
The essays show that a global overview of querns contributes significantly to the interpretation of status and function of a settlement site.
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Caroline Hamon, Jan Graefe
Neue Aspekte zu Mahlsteinen in neolithischen Gesellschaften
7-8
Caroline Hamon, Jan Graefe
New Perspectives on Querns in Neolithic Societies
9-10
Ivan Pavlů
Dimensions of Grinding Stones Between Anatolia and Central Europe
11-22
Jan Graefe
Trade and use of raw material for neolithic querns in north-western Germany
23-32
Britta Ramminger
Quern requirement and raw material supply in Linearbandkeramik settlements of the Mörlener Bucht, NW Wetterau, Hesse
33-44
Caroline Hamon
Lifecycle of a neolithic quern: limits and contribution of a combined technical and functional analysis on grinding tools
45-54
A. Ciarico, Barbaro Cecilia Conati, Cristina Lemorini, Italo M. Muntoni
The role of grinding tools at Masseria Candelaro (southern Italy): an integrated approach of raw material, technological, use-wear and residues analysis
55-67
Cecilia Lidström Holmberg
Grinding technologies, social relations and the becoming of the northernmost TRB
69-92
Sue Watts
Object biography and its importance in furthering our understanding of the structured deposition of querns in Neolithic Britain
