Published: 2022-12-21

Flint sickles from graves of the Strzyżów culturein the light of use-wear analysis

Anna Hyrchała , Katarzyna Pyżewicz , Bartłomiej Bartecki
Sprawozdania Archeologiczne
Section: Field Survey and Materials
DOI https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/74.2022.1.3017

Abstract

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.

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filnt sickles, use-wear analysis, cemeteries, Strzyżów culture, Early Bronze Age, south-east Poland

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Hyrchała, A., Pyżewicz, K., & Bartecki, B. (2022). Flint sickles from graves of the Strzyżów culturein the light of use-wear analysis. Sprawozdania Archeologiczne, 74(1), 485–499. https://doi.org/10.23858/SA/74.2022.1.3017

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