Tag Archives: Sickle

Serrated Stone Artifacts

Posted on 08/04/2011 by Katzman

These items are a Late Paleo Dalton Point and serrated Dove Tail Point (Early Archaic) from Kentucky Serrated stone tools have some advantages compared to non-serrated ones: If used as an arrowhead, serrated projectiles are supposed to cause increased hemorrhage … Continue reading →

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Just for your pleasure: Neolithic Sickles from Scandinavia

Posted on 07/09/2011 by Katzman

In 1973, Ebbe Lomborg published ‘Die Flintdolche Dänemarks, which is still a major source of Late Neolithic Culture in Denmark. Here he classified and chronologically orders the Late Neolithic hallmark, the pressure-flaked flint dagger, into types and subtypes, hence continuing … Continue reading →

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Neolithic Sickles from the Mortillet Collection

Posted on 05/19/2011 by Katzman

These are two broken sickles from the Scandinavian Neolithic / early Bronze Age from the collection of Adrien de Mortillet. Adrien de Mortillet was born 1853 in Geneva, during the political exile of his better known father, Gabriel de Mortillet … Continue reading →

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Large Geometric Sickle Segment from Israel

Posted on 03/24/2011 by Katzman

This is a large geometric sickle segments with gloss and heavy serration from the early Middle Bronze Age of Israel, dated to the beginning of the 2th Millennium BC. As already shown in an earlier post such sickles are characterized … Continue reading →

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Neolithic Sickle

Posted on 02/24/2011 by Katzman

  This is a superb crescent-shaped finely serrated and thin bladed bifacial Danish Neolithic flint sickle dating to the later 3rd. millennium B.C. The final Debitage of such tools is virtually indistinguishable from the late-stage reduction of contemporary daggers. Unfortunately … Continue reading →

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The late Neolithic in Eastern Europe

Posted on 12/22/2010 by Katzman

Large sickles and Dagger-like thin artifacts, often made of delicate black flint and made with an advanced pressure flaking technique, are the characteristic for the late Neolithic/early Bonze Age in the East European Plain. This specimens come from the Crimea (near … Continue reading →

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Yarmukian Sickles from Megiddo

Posted on 11/27/2010 by Katzman

Flint sickles from Megiddo (Early pottery Neolithic resp. Yarmukian) The Yarmukian, known from some 20 sites in the southern Levant is famous for its “Coffeee beans eyes” clay figurines. The Yarmukians were the first in this part of the world … Continue reading →

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Stone Tools after the Stone Age: The Levant

Posted on 08/22/2010 by Katzman

It has early been recognized that chipped stone tools continue to be used after the end of the Neolithic in spite of the introduction of metallurgy. In Northern Europe the production of delicate sickles and a variety of highly sophisticated … Continue reading →

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