A quern-stone is a stone tool for hand-grinding a wide variety of materials, especially for various types of grains.
Disc quern made of basalt stone
The upper stone of a Scottish hand quern from Dalgarven Mill, North Ayrshire
Revolving beehive quern-stones and [lower] a saddlestone on display at Cliffe Castle Museum, in Keighley, West Yorkshire
A stack of quern-stones for sale in a market in Haikou, Hainan, China. These quern-stones are only about 30 cm wide.
Aşıklı Höyük is a settlement mound located nearly 1 kilometre south of Kızılkaya village on the bank of the Melendiz brook, and 25 km southeast of Aksaray, Turkey. Aşıklı Höyük is located in an area c
Aşıklı Höyük Excavations
Panorama made from top of the mound, facing north-west
Aşıklı Höyük excavations in 2009
Earliest calibrated Carbon 14 dates for Aşıklı Höyük as of 2013.