The sickle and the scythe. An instance of path dependence - The morphological characteristics of the domesticated cereals have been affected by the techniques of harvest at the time they were domesticated. Wheat was domesticated under the regime of the sickle; oats under the much later regime of the scythe. Because the sickle selected for a comparatively loose attachment of the seed to the stalk, while the scythe for a strong attachment, farmers could not profitably employ the more rapid technique of scything in harvesting the bread cereals without suffering unacceptable loss of seed from spillage. At the same time, there was no reason to employ the sickle to reap oats when they could be more efficiently mowed using the scythe. The simulta...
International audienceArchaeobotanical and genetic analysis of modern plant materials are drawing a ...
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When maize (Zea mays L.) first arrived in Europe, it was initially considered to be a new type of sm...
While agricultural technology was essentially stagnant in most of Europe during the Late Middle Ages...
Few complete sickles (hafts with stone armatures) have been found in prehistoric sites, particularly...
Accumulation of data from botany, archeology and genetics yields an improved picture of the beginnin...
Les conséquences de différentes successions culturales sur les maladies du pied et des racines ont é...
The techniques for harvesting grains with hand-tools are numerous, but not innumerable. It has prove...
AbstractFor the first time we integrate quantitative data on lithic sickles and archaeobotanical evi...
Llaty (Catherine). — The flail, the board and the mule. Shelling process for cereals in the southern...
This paper is based on the work achieved in the French research project Gedupic (Gestion écologique ...
International audienceThe beginning of the neolithic is a major change of paradigm in the relation b...
For the first time we integrate quantitative data on lithic sickles and archaeobotanical evidence fo...
La reconstitution des techniques agricoles préhistoriques constitue un élément fondamental pour la c...
Summer- Fallow in 18th-Century Scotland: the Ultimate Phase in the Development of a Technique. A br...
International audienceArchaeobotanical and genetic analysis of modern plant materials are drawing a ...
National audienceThe consequences of different crop successions on foot and root diseases were analy...
When maize (Zea mays L.) first arrived in Europe, it was initially considered to be a new type of sm...
While agricultural technology was essentially stagnant in most of Europe during the Late Middle Ages...
Few complete sickles (hafts with stone armatures) have been found in prehistoric sites, particularly...
Accumulation of data from botany, archeology and genetics yields an improved picture of the beginnin...
Les conséquences de différentes successions culturales sur les maladies du pied et des racines ont é...
The techniques for harvesting grains with hand-tools are numerous, but not innumerable. It has prove...
AbstractFor the first time we integrate quantitative data on lithic sickles and archaeobotanical evi...
Llaty (Catherine). — The flail, the board and the mule. Shelling process for cereals in the southern...
This paper is based on the work achieved in the French research project Gedupic (Gestion écologique ...
International audienceThe beginning of the neolithic is a major change of paradigm in the relation b...
For the first time we integrate quantitative data on lithic sickles and archaeobotanical evidence fo...
La reconstitution des techniques agricoles préhistoriques constitue un élément fondamental pour la c...
Summer- Fallow in 18th-Century Scotland: the Ultimate Phase in the Development of a Technique. A br...
International audienceArchaeobotanical and genetic analysis of modern plant materials are drawing a ...
National audienceThe consequences of different crop successions on foot and root diseases were analy...
When maize (Zea mays L.) first arrived in Europe, it was initially considered to be a new type of sm...