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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@...>
wrote:
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> From: alexandru_mg3
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> Subject: [tied] Re: Dacian Sounds Laws - (2) Long Vowels
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> c) Now please take a look at (It's what I did too: I tried to
> find 'stone sickles')
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> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sickle
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> to see a Sumerian 'stone sickle' dated 3000 BCE => seems
> that 'initially' PAlbanians used the 'stone sickles' too (no
> surprize here)...so we have really an inherited PIE word (and
Beekes
> is very good :) in this case)
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> ***
> Patrick:
> The caption states clearly: "baked clay".
>
> ***
>
Sorry, you are right. Thansk for the correction.
I kept the image among some other url-s and I forgot the comment....
However 'stone sickles' existed for real:
1.
http://www.stampa.cnr.it/documenti/cnrWeb/2006/Gen/05_gen_06_02.htm
Shedding light on dark age of Cyprus archaeology
A BRACELET and a sickle made of stone are among recent
archaeological finds that may shed light on the dark age of Cypriot
archaeology between the earliest evidence of human presence on the
island at 10,000 BC and the appearance of the first villages from
around 8,200 BC.
2.
http://isthmia.osu.edu/teg/hist306/lec14.htm
"
V. Diet and Economy
B. Carbonized grain, stone sickle blades testified to farming
C. Arrowheads show they hunted
"
3. Also Cronos used a stone sickle 'to destroy' his father (if I
remember well)
Marius