@article{Hyrchała_Pyżewicz_Bartecki_2022, title={Flint sickles from graves of the Strzyżów culturein the light of use-wear analysis}, volume={74}, url={https://journals.iaepan.pl/sa/article/view/3017}, DOI={10.23858/SA/74.2022.1.3017}, abstractNote={<p>The presented article aims to interpret the function of selected flint sickles from the Early Bronze Age. For this purpose, we made a use-wear analysis of 13 sickles coming from the cemeteries of the Strzyżów culture in south-east Poland: Rogalin, site 15, Hrubieszów-Podgórze, site 1, Hrebenne, sites 10 and 31, and Świerszczów, site 5 (Hrubieszów district, Lublin province). All analyzed sickles were made of Volhynian flint and represent the sub-triangular type. As a result, we can conclude that analyzed tools were used mostly for harvesting cereals or other siliceous plants. They were placed in hafts made of hard organic materials, combined with hide/plant. Conducted studies also revealed that these objects, suitably altered (sickle tips were destroyed right before being deposited in a grave) became important grave goods.</p>}, number={1}, journal={Sprawozdania Archeologiczne}, author={Hyrchała, Anna and Pyżewicz, Katarzyna and Bartecki, Bartłomiej}, year={2022}, month={Dec.}, pages={485–499} }