Neolithic farming device in Greece 6,500 BCE, thousands of years earlier than thought

A new study of flints and other stones from ancient sites in Greece has upset some previously held assumptions about the adoption and use in the Near East and Europe of the threshing sledge, one of the most fundamental devices associated with the domestic farming of cereals.

"Forget suprcivilizations and megasites. Forget megaliths and great temples.

It's often the small stuff that tells us what really went on in the past and shaped the arc of the human story.

Little bits of flint, for example".

00:00 - Introduction
01:00 - Study overview
03:55 - Sickle blades, threshing blades
06:49 - What is a threshing sledge?
08:54 - The threshing sledge in prehistory
10:52 - Prehsitoric cereal farming efficiency
11:53 - Study techniques
14:12 - Profound implications
15:58 - The sample size
18:37 - Secondary products
20:45 - Wrapping up


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