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Engraved animal sickle handle
UnknownEpipaleolithic period, 13,000 years ago
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Jerusalem, Israel
Animal images engraved on the oldest sickle handles represent a small number of species – mainly young deer and cattle – which may reflect the beginning of domestication. It is also possible that the animals served as protective spirits or as totemic symbols of different social groups or clans.
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- Title: Engraved animal sickle handle
- Creator: Unknown
- Date Created: Epipaleolithic period, 13,000 years ago
- Location: Kebara cave
- Type: Sickle handle
- Rights: Israel Antiquities Authority, Photo © The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- External Link: Israel Museum, Jerusalem
- Medium: Bone
- Exhibition: In The Beginning: Prehistory and the Origins of Myth, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Weisbord Exhibition Pavilion, 13/07/2005 - 08/04/2006
- Dimensions: L: 22.5 cm; W: 1.6 cm; Th: 0.5 cm
- Curator: Hershman, Debby
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