Sickle Harvesting Tools
Curved stone, bone, or metal-edged tools for cutting cereal stalks quickly during harvest.
Core metadata
- ID: sickle_harvesting_tools
- Era: Ancient
- First known date: -9500 (millennium)
- Region: Southwest Asian early farming communities
- Review status: source_checked
- Maturity: N/A
Prerequisites
- Advanced Stone Tools (advanced_stone_tools)
- Agriculture (agriculture)
- Basic Rope Making (basic_rope_making)
Dependents
Fields
- None.
Node sources
- Neolithic (Encyclopaedia Britannica, 2026, textbook) • Supports: edge, node
Prerequisite edge evidence
Edge/source evidence summary:
- Prerequisite edges: 3
- Average edge confidence: 73%
- Prerequisite sources: 2
- expert_inference: 3
| Prerequisite | Type | Confidence | Evidence level | Note | Sources |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Agriculture (agriculture) | enabling | 68% | expert_inference | Agriculture provides a capability that enables this technology without being the only possible path. |
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| Advanced Stone Tools (advanced_stone_tools) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Advanced Stone Tools is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. | No sources recorded. |
| Basic Rope Making (basic_rope_making) | historical_predecessor | 75% | expert_inference | Basic Rope Making is an earlier historical predecessor or foundation, not a one-to-one engineering dependency. |
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