Prehistoric Man, Iron Age Farming
Corn harvest being carried on by means of sickles. A man is engaged in beating out, with a stick, the wheat sheaves in order to thrash out the grain. The grain is then ground in a circular mill, worked by a horizontal handle. This mill is composed of two stones revolving one above the other, and was the substitute for the rough primitive corn mill; it subsequently became the mill used by the Romans, the pistrinum. The daily diet for most people in Iron Age was a combination of bread, porridges and stews. Wheat, barley and corn were the most common crops grown by Iron Age people. They would have been ground into flour to make bread, using quern stones. Caption adapted from Primitive Man by Louis Figuier, 1871
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