Agriculture and the Flint Sickle in Palestine

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ID3386791
AutoresE Cecil Curwen (autor correspondente)
Ano1935
Volume9
Fascículo33
Páginas62-66
Data de publicação1935-03-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAntiquity (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0003-598X • E-ISSN: 1745-1744
EditoraCambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1017/s0003598x00009972
OpenAlexW2497535705
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas15
Referências citadas1

It does not seem to have been contested, and therefore one may assume that it is generally agreed, that the discovery of the remains of a sickle in an ancient deposit is evidence that its owner knew how to grow corn. The forms that sickles took prior to the use of metal have been ably classified by M. Vayson de Pradenne in an article which was reviewed and summarized in ANTIQUITY in June 1930, and as a result of his work the characteristics of the flint flakes and of their method of hafting as sickles has come to be widely known and easily recognized

Ancient history · Archaeology · Ethnology · Geography · Palestine · Ancient Egypt and Archaeology · Archaeological Research and Protection · Archaeology and Historical Studies · History