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In all pre-industrial societies, storage allowed consumption to be postponed and spread over time in order to prevent food insecurity. Methods used for storage therefore provide information on the technical choices made by various human groups, on the volume of stocks available, on the spatial distribution of foodstuffs and on the populations capable of collecting and centralising surpluses. Such information is particularly evident not only in the prosopographical and textual sources that document the institution of the Šnw.t in the Middle Kingdom, but also in recent results of urban archaeology. Such elements make it possible to draw up the socio-economical features of cereal storage during that period. |
