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Larraul mill. Source: Nora Urbizu.

Cereal grinding is the crushing or breaking of the grain. Grinding is one of the first intelligent activities of man, the first step in food processing.

In the Late Bronze Age, the inhabitants of our area knew it, and this is what the hand mills found in excavations carried out in the Iron Age villages of Basagain and Intxur (Gipuzkoa) and in the researches carried out in Anoeta and Albiztur have shown. In these latter cases, they are ship-shaped mills that have appeared around the house.

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