Publisher: Cambridge University Press
E-ISSN: 1745-1744|18|71|130-146
ISSN: 0003-598x
Source: Antiquity, Vol.18, Iss.71, 1944-09, pp. : 130-146
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Abstract
In previous papers the writer has suggested that, according to such evidence as is available, the rotary quern must have been derived from the large and heavy donkey-mill of Greece and Rome (1), and Childe has further suggested that this development may have been brought about through the adaptation of the rotary principle to small portable mills suitable for the use of armies in the field (2). Thus legionaries, upon demobilization, would carry the idea, if not the articles themselves, back to their peasant homes.
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