Abstract
Although non-rotary grindstones (saddle querns) and related artefacts are not infrequently encountered on Holocene archaeological sites in many parts of Africa, they are rarely studied. This paper begins to remedy that omission by looking at the varied morphologies of some of the grind- and handstones found at the Pre-Aksumite site of Seglamen in highland northern Ethiopia and comparing these with similar artefacts from the Pre-Aksumite and Late Aksumite levels at the site of Kidane Mehret, near Aksum. A classificatory vocabulary is presented and it is shown that significant economic reconstructions can be derived from the study of these artefacts, including the probable correlation of a change in grindstone material and morphology with the introduction of modern free-threshing wheat.
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