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Agriculture and the Flint Sickle in Palestine*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2015

E. Cecil Curwen
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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.

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Research-Article
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Antiquity , Volume 9 , Issue 33 , March 1935 , pp. 62 - 66
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Copyright © Antiquity Publications Ltd 1935

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References

1 ‘The Stone Age of Palestine’, ANTIQUITY, June1934, p. 133.Google Scholar

2 The place to which the Natufian and other periods have been assigned in the absolute chronology of the Middle East will be found by referring to the Chronological Table published in ANTIQUITY, June 1932, 6, 185.Google Scholar

3 I am greatly indebted to the Editor for having the photograph specially taken.

4 The specimen from Selmeston was fully described in the Antiq. Journal, XIV. Another example, from Salvington, will, it is hoped, be published shortly, and is in the collection of its finder, Mr Barclay Wills, of Worthing.