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This document summarizes a study on grain grinding in New Kingdom Egypt. It discusses how grinding grain was an important daily task necessary to process emmer or barley into flour for making bread, the primary food. The study focuses on two sites - the Amarna Walled Village and Deir el-Medina - that provide evidence of bread production activities through preserved houses and tools. While grinding was a key step performed largely by women, it was also an important household task and contributed to the labor

Author

Rocío Ruiz Montero

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