Histoires anciennes, avant le début de notre ère
Antique Stories
Histoires anciennes, avant le début de notre ère
History of the Fossils
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| History of the Fossils |
Before the combine harvester and the scythe, the Fossil was the instrument used to cut the wheat. The oldest
Fossils were serrated. They were cut in wood or bone, and their teeth were obtained by inserting pieces of flint to form the sharp part. The wheat was sawn according to a precise gesture: one hand collected a set of ears while the other sawed underneath.
In Palestine, more than 1200 years ago, many Fossils were found in caves (including those of Mugharet el Wad, Mugharet el Kebarah and Oumm ez Zoueitina): they were made with a thin bone blade, A slightly curved handle with a length of up to 0.38 m, having a groove on the concave edge for adjusting the flint teeth held by bitumen
This ancient instrument testifies to the first places where harvests were carried out. The archaeologists have found, in conformity with the dates of appearance of the Neolithic, in Mesopotamia, in Anatolia, in Egypt and in Europe.
Here are the most remarkable discoveries of Fossils:
In Mesopotamia, the first Fossils are of terracotta, especially those of the culture of Obeid.
In Anatolia, on the site of Yazilikaya, near Hattusha, it is a whole troupe of 12 deities of the world of the beyond, which is equipped with harps. It is thus that we designate the instrument close to the Fossil, which served as a weapon, but whose active part was rather on the external curvature of the tool
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| 12 gods armed with harps, site of Yazilikaya |
During the Pharaohs' Egypt, the largest number of copies was found during the Hyksos dynasties. Wooden Fossils with flint blades fixed with resin were placed in tombs for the afterlife, from the first dynasties.
In the tomb of Tutankhamun, such an object was found, of a reduced size, gilded wood, adorned with its royal cartridges
Indicating his date of birth and his throne names. The blade and teeth are colored glass.
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In 1911, Antoine Héron of Villefosse reported the discovery in the island of Cyprus of a bronze v in the shape of a 91 cm ibex horn. Other findings of this type have been reported in the Near East. These objects seem to have had a purely religious use.
In Ougarit, in 1931, a French excavation team found numerous Fossils in flint, out of step with the time, because the bronze Fossils existed well before the creation of the city.
In Hungary, in Szegvar, a 6000-year-old statue of a god with a Fossil has been stamped
In Gaul it was with such an instrument that the Druids, dressed in a white robe, were going to cut the mistletoe in the trees. Numerous bronze Fossils have been found everywhere in France. They testify to harvesting activity during the Bronze Age. previously,
Some were entirely of polished stone. Such a discovery was made in 1937 at Myon, in the Doubs.
Dated from the end of the Bronze Age, 500 almost new Fossils were found in Briod, in the Jura. This deposit, as well as others in Europe, more heteroclite, testify to an important trade on bronze objects, with a recycling activity of worn metal objects
MOHAMED NAJIB SAAAD
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