El vaivén cotidiano: la transformación del cereal en las sociedades prehistóricas

Abstract

This paper deals with the basic tasks related to food preparation in Argaric prehistory. Based on data from Argaric sites from the South West region of the Iberian Peninsula, the authors analyse the milling process in terms of production, labour and technology. A variety of experiments have demonstrated the care in the ma-nufacture of saddle querns. These appear in contexts related to other activities, such as textile manufactu-re and food preparation, all of them connected with female work. In addition, studies of skeletal material had shown, in the case of women, the presence of le-sions associated with arthritis in the vertebral column, hands, hips, knees and feet- parts of the body related to the process of grinding.