Resumen de Grinding flour in Upper Palaeolithic Europe (25000 years bp)

Biancamaria Aranguren, Roberto Becattini, Marta Mariotti Lippi, Anna Revedin

• The authors have identified starch grains belonging to wild plants on the surface of a stone from the Gravettian hunter-gatherer campsite of Bilancino (Florence, Italy), dated to around 25000bp. The stone can be seen as a grindstone and the starch has been extracted from locally growing edible plants. This evidence can be claimed as implying the making of flour -and presumably some kind of bread - some 15 millennia before the local "agricultural revolution".