A new collective article on the incredible sickles from La Mamortta have been published. ttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-18597-8
Integrating use-wear analysis and confocal microscopy we have been able to discriminate the eact type of harvested plants. Our study demonstrates that those tools were used for harvesting cereals. They are the earliest wooden sickles of the Mediterranean Neolithic.
This multiproxy approach provides a significant insight into the life of these tools, from their production to their use and abandonment, providing evidence of the species of harvested plants and the conditions of the field during the harvesting.
An example of one the three complete sickles studied by Mazzucco et al. 2022.