This paper, composed of two sections, linguistic and archaeologic (the second dealing with materials excavated in Swāt by the Mission), is the result of a long and initially informal thread of exchanges of views, opinions, data, between a linguist and two archaeologists. The paper focuses on a simple but successful device called rotary quern, or mečə́n in Pashto.

Pašto mečəń مٻچن ‘hand-mill, quern’. Linguistic and archaeological notes on rotary querns

Luca Maria Olivieri;
2020-01-01

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This paper, composed of two sections, linguistic and archaeologic (the second dealing with materials excavated in Swāt by the Mission), is the result of a long and initially informal thread of exchanges of views, opinions, data, between a linguist and two archaeologists. The paper focuses on a simple but successful device called rotary quern, or mečə́n in Pashto.
2020
IRANIAN STUDIES IN HONOUR OF ADRIANO V. ROSSI
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