Thirty thousand-year-old flour: New evidence of plant food processing in the Upper Paleolithic

• Authors: REVEDIN Anna; ARANGUREN Biancamaria; BECATTINI Roberto; LONGO Laura; MARCONI Emanuele; MARIOTTI LIPPI Marta; SKAKUN Natalia; SINITSYN Andrey; SPIRIDONOVA Elena; SVOBODA Jiří
• Year of publication: 2010
• Type: Article in Periodical
• Magazine / Source: Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci
• MU Faculty or unit: Faculty of Science
• Web: https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1006993107
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.1006993107
• Field: Archaeology, anthropology, ethnology
• Keywords: grindstones - plant diet - starch grains
• Description: We present evidence of starch grains from various wild plants on the surfaces of grinding tools at the sites of Bilancino II (Italy), Kostenki 16-Uglyanka (Russia), and Pavlov VI (Czech Republic). The three sites suggest that vegetal food processing was a common practice in Europe from at least 30,000 years ago.