Time and life cycles reflected in the grinding stones of Europe's earliest Neolithic communities

The hand-held grinding tools used to process cereals that the first European Neolithic societies buried in deposits had a high symbolic value for the women who used them, related to time and the cycles of human life, nature and settlements. This is the conclusion that researchers from the UAB have reached after studying the grinding stones of three ritual sites found in recent years in Germany. The research was recently published in the Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports.