Seen through a millstone
By: Lotte Selsing (ed.).
Series: AmS-Skrifter -- 24; AmS-skrifter -- 24
Publisher: Arkeologisk museum, Universitetet i Stavanger
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stavanger
Language: eng
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9788277601588
Subjects: Grain; Milling; History; Congresses; Millstones; Mills and mill-work
Notes: "The articles are based on presentations given at the interdisciplinary colloquium held at Bryggen Museum in Bergen, Norway, 19-21 October 2011: Seen through a millstone : geology and archaeology of quarries and mills. The 4th International Colloquium on the Archaeology and Geology of Mills and Milling."--Foreword.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Ethnography. Milling wheat and barley with rotary querns: the Ouarten women (Dahmani, Kef, Tunisia) / Natàlia Alonso [and others] ; The conglomerate millstone makers of New York and Virginia in the United States / Charles D. Hockensmith ; The symbolism of querns and millstones / Susan Watts; title: The Middle East. A prehistoric grinding stone quarry in the Egyptian Sahara / Per Storemyr ; Millstones of Aswan granite found on the island of Elephantine, Egypt / Stafania Wefers & Fritz Mangartz ; Pompeian style mills in Jordan and Syria / David Peacock & David Williams; title: ^; title: Southern and Western Europe. Continued characterisation of querns and quern quarries in Southern Spain / Timothy J. Anderson, Jane H. Scarrow & Aitor Cambeses ; Methodology of millstone study in France: Neolithic to the Middle Ages / Luc Jaccottey [and others] ; Complex dressing patterns on grinding surfaces of rotary querns and millstones from Antiquity in the Paris Basin, France: state of research and perspectives / Stéphanie Lepareux-Couturier ; Preliminary report on a quern and millstone production site from the Iron Age and the Medieval Period at Mount Ruderbüsch, Western Eifel Region, Germany / Vera Holtmeyer-Wild; title: ^; title: Eastern and Northernmost Europe. Production and distribution of rotary quernstones from quarries in southwestern Poland in the early Middle Ages / Eva Lisowska, Piotr Gunia & Michał Borowski ; Rotary querns and bread: a social history of Iron Age Sweden / Torun Zachrisson ; A local millstone quarry at Nord-Talgje in Southwest Norway: mapping, interpretation and age estimate / Lisbeth Prøsch-Danielsen & Tom Heldal ; Unravelling the history of a complex millstone quarry landscape: Tolstadkvernberget, South Norway / Tor Grenne, Gurli B. Meyer & Tom Heldal ; Technological development in millstone quarrying through the Middle Ages: the Salten quarries, Northern Norway / Tor Grenne [and others] ; Did the North Atlantic region constitute a market for quernstones from Norway during the Viking Age and the Middle Ages? / Irene Baug & Øystein J. Jansen.