Bread for the people
Subtitle: the archaeology of mills and milling : proceedings of a colloquium held in the British School at Rome, 4th-7th November 2009
By: edited by David Williams, David Peacock
Series: BAR international series -- 2274; University of Southampton series in archaeology -- no. 3.; BAR international series -- 2274.; BAR international series -- no. 3.
Publisher: Archaeopress
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Oxford
Language: eng
Number of pages: 361
ISBN-13: 9781407308487
Subjects: Quarries and quarrying; Congresses; History; Prehistoric Quarries and quarrying; Millstones; Mills and mill-work
Notes: "...contains a series of papers that resulted from the proceedings of Bread for the people: a colloqiuium on the archaeology of mills and milling..."--P. ix.

Includes bibliographical references.

Papers in English and French.
Table of contents: title: Keynote address. Why dig a millstone quarry? The case of Claix in the south west of France (5th-19th centuries) / A. Belmont; title: Ethnography. Les meules en pays Minyanka (Mali): etude des carrières et techniques de production actuelles / C. Hamon and V. Le Gall; title: The hand-mills of Olymbos: an ethnographical study of their form, function and role in a Greek village / H. Parton; title: Pre-Roman. Visualising the invisible: re-discoverying the ancient grinding stone quarries of the Aswan West Bank, Egypt / E. Bloxam; title: Manufacturing rotary querns in the 4th century BC fortified settlement of ElsVilars (Arbeca, Catalonia, Spain) / N. Alonso ... [et al.]; title: Still using your saddle quern? A compilation of the oldest known rotary querns in western Europe / S. Wefers; title: The earliest rotary querns in southern England / D. Peacock and L. Cutler; title: Rotary querns from the late La Tène found in the Oppidum of Heidengraben: a new type of volcanic rock and its origin / A. Lehmkuhl; title: Roman. First century querns of the Roman army, in the light of modern texts / F. Jodry; title: A newly identified milling artefact from Roman Britain / M. Watts; title: Pompeian millstones in France / L. Jaccottey and S. Longepierre; title: A note on Pompeian style mills in Britain / D.F. Williams and D. Peacock; title: Hertfordshire Puddingstone querns: working with a difficult rock / C. Green; title: Hand and 'donkey' mills of North African farms / M. De Vos, R. Attoui and M. Andreoli; title: Volcanic quern and millstone quarries in Cabo de Gata and Campo de Calatrava, Spain / T. Anderson, T. Grenne and Juan Manuel Fernández Soler; title: Medieval. Querns as markers for the determination of medieval northern European trade spheres / M. Pohl; title: Of cakes and kings: bread-making in early medieval England / C. Coulter; title: Les meulières de l'Ile de Minorque: trente-neuf sites industriels d'époque Andalousi (Xè-XIIIè siècles) / J. Sanchez Navarro; title: Rotary hand-querns in volcanic stone in the medieval Mediterranean / P. Arthur; title: 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 / P. Galetti; title: Ore grinding in the Middle Ages: the example of Brandes-en-Oisans (Isère, France) / N. Minveille Larousse and M.-C. Bailley-Maître; title: Post Medieval. The study of America's millstone quarries: past research and future directions / C.D. Hockensmith; title: La fabrication d'une meule en emeri et ciment magnésien / J.P. Duc; title: La fouille du moulin à vent de Roissy-en-France (Val-d'Oise), France / J-Y. Dufour; title: Millstone quarries in southern Spain: preliminary pinpointing of provenance and production: exploiting the Internet / T. Anderson and J.H. Scarrow; title: Multiperiod. Quern and millstone quarries in the north of Spain / P. Pascual Mayoral and P. García Ruiz; title: Seven thousand years of millstone production in the Serre Mountain Range of the French Jura / L. Jaccottey; title: The widening use of Lodsworth Stone: neolithic to Romano-British quern distribution / R. Shaffrey and F. Roe; title: The rise and fall of the Hyllestad millstone quarry landscape, Western Norway / T. Heldal and G.B. Meyer; title: Theory, methodology and education. The function of querns / S. Watts; title: The millstone quarries in Hyllestad: an arena of research and education / I. Baug and T. Løland; title: Les meules de l'Esterel (Var, France) un diagnostic par SIG / A. Buisson; title: Evolution typologique et tecchnique des meules du Néolithique à l'an mille sur le territoire Français (poster) / Le Groupe Meule.