Author: Steensberg, Axel [ 1906- 1999 ]
Title: Ancient Harvesting Implements: A Study in Archaeology and Human Geography
Description: Københaven, Nordisk Forlag, 1943. boards. 29x22cm, 275(13)pp. Recent binder's blind boards with original front and rear cover wrappers bound-in.. 13 folding maps.. Tape marks to in-bound cover wrappers & half-title. VG. ¶ Inscribed by author on half-title. Includes 13 folding maps in rear pocket.5 of the maps have a small hole. Contents: The Utility of Flint and Metal Implements for Grain Reaping Demonstrated by Experiments; The History of Harvesting Implements in Denmark. Archaeological Sources, Supplemented by Stone Age Finds from the Provinces East of the Sound and the Cattegal: Stone Age; Bronze Age; Iron Age; Middle Age; The Origin of Harvesting Implements and their Evolution in the Old World up to Modern Times: Primitive Reaping Methods; The Angular Sickle; The Leaf-Knife and the Short Scythe; The Balanced Sickle and the Long Scythe; Victory of the Scythe over the Sickle as a Grain-Reaping Implement, and the Significance of Geographical Factors; Conclusion; Appendices. Series: Danish National Museum, Nationalmuseets skrifter. Arkæologisk-historisk række, 1.

Keywords: Ancient Agricultural Tools, Scythes Scythe, Sickles Sickle, Harvesting, Implements, Danish Archeology, Archaeology, Denmark, Scandinavia