--- In
cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "alexandru_mg3" <alexandru_mg3@...>
wrote:
>
> --- In cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "Patrick Ryan" <proto-language@>
> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: alexandru_mg3
> > Sent: Thursday, April 20, 2006 4:36 PM
> > To: cybalist@yahoogroups.com
> > Subject: [tied] Re: Dacian Sounds Laws - (2) Long Vowels
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > 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
> >
> > ***
> > Patrick:
> > I could find nothing there. Why not insert these as links so one
> has only to click on them?
> >
> > ***
> >
> > 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.
>
> Patrick,
>
> This is written there:
>
> > 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.
>
> Make a "find in file" at the above url for 'stone sickle' and you
> will finf the above paragraph
>
> I will not insist anymore: if you think that there weren't stone
> sickles OK...but keep this for yourself...
>
> Marius
>
>
You can read below (I made a copy/paste for you) if you cannot find
at that url the below paragraphes:
"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.
According to Department of Antiquities release, an archaeological
survey focusing on the elucidation of the Early Neolithic Period was
this year undertaken by the Universities of Cyprus and Toronto with
promising results.
The project investigated lithic scatter sites located between the
villages of Lymbia and Agrokipia and established that hunters and
food gatherers covered long distances in search of subsistence.
In all, 11 such sites as well as 14 chert sources were investigated,
yielding 11,000 chipped stone and ground artifacts, "shedding new
light on this dark age and suggesting that the island was inhabited
prior to the advent of farming."
The project has identified a handful of promising very early sites
with unique concentrations of stone fragments clearly distinct from
chipped and ground stone industries documented at known Aceramic
Neolithic sites.
Three major chert flint - quarries exploited in prehistory were
also studied, providing the first evidence of early stone tool
manufacture centres on the island.
The investigation of such stone tool quarries in relation to
habitation/activity sites has begun to provide detailed knowledge of
how early hunter-gatherers may have foraged across the Cypriot
landscape.
A fragment of a stone bracelet made of picrolite was discovered at
Politico 20km south of Nicosia on a small hill top site where
foragers were apparently engaged in cutting wild cereals, judging
from the presence also of the remains of a stone sickle made of non-
local stone.
The picrolite, a semi-precious stone is found only in the Kouris
river near Limassol, while the stone sickle was probably
manufactured using stone from the Alambra area some 15 km distant. "