The article underlines the importance of barley in the ancient North African diet, looking at a specific contemporary food, bsisa.This is made from green barley, toasted, ground, and mixed with spices and water and oil into a sort of porridge.It constituted an important resource for a time of year when stocks turbo air m3f24-1 of other grains might be running low.The porridge is made by rubbing the ground grain against the side of the bowl while water is added in a thin stream.
It is suggested that the ARS form 91, which had a long series of predecessors in North 1073spx African ceramics, was an ideal form for the making and consumption of bsisa.Wear analysis of some specimens seems to support this conclusion.