GRST 321 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Latticework, Frontinus, Water Wheel

• School: University of Calgary
• Department: Greek and Roman Studies
• Course: GRST 321
• Professor: Lesley Bolton

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Aboriculture (pliny the elder: pliny the elder describing uses for plants and trees, provided food, clothing, and something to lay on hard ground like carpet, gave humanity olive oil, wine, and seasonal fruit. Can cut the stalk with a bill-shaped or toothed spitted sickle. Corn and wheat ears can be picked by hand. Combs or flat boards can be used on a thin crop. In large estates there might be huge frames with teeth on the forward edge and set on wheels for an animal to drive it through the crop (this tears off ears and collects them in the frame) Chaff and husks are blown away while the grain falls back down. Milling grain: farmer feeds grain by hand into a hand-powered mill. Once he has ground enough grain he puts it into a sieve so the husks and flour are separated: draft animals could also be hitched to a larger mill.