Harvest time: crop-reaping technologies and the Neolithisation of the Central Mediterranean

What is it about?

Harvesting techniques are a crucial activity within agricultural practices. Since Neolithic times, specialized tools made of wood or bone were designed to harvest grain. We have shown that a variability of techniques for crop harvesting existed in the Central Mediterranean.

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Why is it important?

Our findings show that different harvesting traditions existed since the Early Neolithic. The geographical distribution of these different traditions can be related to different paths of diffusion followed by the Neolithic populations in their expansion through the Mediterranean. This study sheds light on how Neolithic groups moved, interact and evolved.