Stone Sickle - The First Grain and Grass Harvesting Tool  

I can do that. I think I have a much earlier version of it, but I can do an. Thanks.

exactly what I was thinking! Fascinating, I would also love to see if the sickle works, and how well?

I thought that too

Absolutely. I think a bit of history and practical application and creation is the key to success. Appreciate you watching and following the adventures!!

Much respect and appreciation. Glad this and the others can help.

This is also something I want to make. Kind of an Otzi knife, maybe a bit longer. I already made a few knives out of steel by grinding. I still want to play with blacksmithing and make a knife fully without power tools. Maybe some day i will play with smelting too. And I also want to have a self made stone knife. I think it helps to appreciate how much effort our ancestors put in their tools 😏 And it kind of helps to understand, how similar they were to us. They just didn't have our tools and knowledge. The way of thinking didn't change. Making tools of our ancestors just as they did them, can help to appreciate the phase: "we are standing on the shoulders of giants, that came before us" 😊

More to come! Appreciate you greatly bro!

@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks Just a little technical question. I'm a tech guy, so I always try to find another way. And i was wondering, how much more effort it would be, to knap such sickle shape and place it in the horn instead of using smaller pieces. Those pieces would probably fall out from time tot time. There are spaces between them, where grass would just stick. I think it would be an advantage to make a single blade like this and put it in the horn. Would it be too difficult to knap a single blade out of the flint and shape it to the horn?

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Glad you like them! I have some more coming in the future. Appreciate you watching them! Thanks for the feedback!

It’s just my workshop. It’s full of hides and random objects. It’s what I have and just keep it simple. Appreciate you watching!

my guess is probably hammer stones and wooden mallets to bust the nuts open. as far as harvesting, many nuts simply fall off the tree when ready so they would be fairly easy to collect

@@christopherconaway3549 I know very little but, have a mortar stone I found long ago? Not exactly a mortar but that is what a friend of mine, with more knowledge told me 40 years ago. It's a large heavy flat rock with a nut sized divot in the middle, I call it a nut cracking rock! lol My buddy had a much nicer mortar and a pestle stone in his collection that was used for grinding.

@@christopherconaway3549 Guess? You know you can read about the tools they used in books and journals?

Grinding stones, mono/matate, and mortar and pestle were for grinding and cracking. All these same tools were used in grain processing as well. They key thing is grain processing along with nut foraging was seasonal and widely used as a supplemental food. It could be stored long term in certain conditions. To be honest…if it could consumed…it was collected, processed and consumed

I’m working on those. Soon as the mountains thaw out..Finn my dog and myself are heading out!!!

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Sounds amazing using a blade somebody may have used long before you

That’s awesome….that you came across them, not that you got cut up. Appreciate you watching!

@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks I appreciate you posting this. Watching you I realized something: I'm an Arkansas farm boy who worked in a turkey house in Israel. I was always getting into trouble for working barefoot. Saturdays I'd head for the hills and get away from folks. I could work safely on the flat tablelands near the river where we grew wheat and other crops, bananas and fish ponds next to the river, which is sulfurous. But when I started to go up the hills that's when I would run into more old blades than unworked stones. And also unexploded ordnance but that's another story. Up there there was a type of wild grass. I may think the blades might have been paleolithic rather than neolithic or bronze age artifacts. They weren't in the fields of cotton and wheat, although they were sticking out of the walls of a Canaanite tel we had on the place. The other thing is that I'd always looked at those drawings of people flaking those blades from large cores that had the shape of fireplace logs. You showed me: it wasn't that hard. I will point out that in that area they didn't have antlers available, but I ran across gazelles who had run out of gas fairly often. Their horn cores, or perhaps goat or ibex horn cores would have been used as handles if you needed a nice swoop to your sickle.

Absolutely! Our brains have set us apart from other species. We are a creative bunch of creatures!

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I have a video on the rancloir coming soon.

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Sure thing…its use over the past 20,000 years is a good testament, but I can absolutely do one!!

It holds up, but it’s something that will wear down. Blades can pop out, but you just reheat it and put it back….or a new one! Thanks for watching!

Thanks for the idea!

Everything…I create all different types of tools from them. Everything is used in all honesty!

Thanks for watching! Will do!!!

@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks Thank you very mutch... have a nice Start of the week.... see you….

Yes! Thank you! Appreciate you watching!!!

@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks Preciate you for uploading!

Yes and no…Georgetown chert is abundant, but beware the scam of sites withholding it creating scarcity, forcing consumers to purchase it at a higher price when it comes available. They do the same with diamonds..

It took about 90 minutes to do the groove…it’s the struggle of stone tools. Totally worth it!!!

Thanks for the reply! That’s really interesting. Seems like a person could collect lots of cereal plants in 90 minutes with a cruder tool. I guess I’ll have to see it in action to understand. I guess I could see it for a community that became more stationary and started taking most of their calories from crops. I’m wondering if the sickle also helped older, weaker, or injured people still be able to contribute to the community? It also seems like the flakes used could be remnants of worn down knives and other points that got chipped or broken and pieces left after making larger flakes/tools - sort of ancient upcycling. You’re the expert. Am I way off base?

Hahaha. All very true.

Appreciate you watching. I do believe the numbers grew as people reproduced. More mouths to feed…more farming was needed. What that starting number was…I would guess a small family or joint family core…8-10.

@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks I appreciate the reply!

So…I would disagree with an advanced global civilization. No evidence to support that…rather pseudo science and popular media sources preaching nonsense. People in the past were advanced and started to resource cereal grains 50,000 years ago and as time past…farming took hold and flourished.

@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks I kindly disagree. 50,000 years is an unfathomable amount of time in human and geologic scale. If we seized to exist today the only things left standing would be stone structures like the Hudson dam. There's a lot of evidence in the geologic record from earth cores dug in Antarctica that there's a layer of sut that's unaccounted for that's identical to the layer of sut found that's attributed to the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs. 12,000 years is still a crazy long amount of time for use to be hunter gatherers and farmers. How would you even date things to 50,000 years ago that was so surface level like farming?

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There are some similarities as far as stone in pitch. Thanks for watching.

You can do that. Not an issue at all!!

Like grass you would grow in a yard? I’m not sure about yard grass…at one time I’m sure it was doable!!

Cut yard grass, no. Uncut, long grass with seeds? Maybe. I've walked through long grass like that before and get COVERED with seeds. I'll try it if you don't👍

@@izzyc.6559 I got you. No issues there.

@@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks Sorry if I sounded rude didn't mean to. Thanks for the reply👍

@@izzyc.6559 didn’t take at that. You are golden. No worries!

Sure. No problem!!

Most archeological finds are from an antler tine. They are much lighter. However, a jaw bone could have been used.

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I would disagree in many ways, But respect your outlook.

@DonnyDustsPaleoTracks I respect you my friend!!!

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The earth is Definetly "NOT" 6000 Years old. Much much older