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Serrated Stone Artifacts
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
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
Neolithic Sickles from the Mortillet Collection
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
Large Geometric Sickle Segment from Israel
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
Neolithic Sickle
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
The late Neolithic in Eastern Europe
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
Yarmukian Sickles from Megiddo
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
Stone Tools after the Stone Age: The Levant
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