Canaanean blade

haft. Polished at the extreme point. Found on land of the Lebanese Evangelical School for Girls in the Patriarchate area of Beirut, Lebanon

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A Canaanean blade is an

arrowheads. The same technology was used during the later Chalcolithic period in the production of broad sickle blade elements for harvesting of crops.^[1] Canaanean blades were also used in the threshing of cereal grains. This indicates the presence of early agricultural technologies. The blades would be attached to a small wooden platform with bitumen. The platform, with a human or other weight standing on it, was then pulled behind an animal across a threshing floor.^[2]

The forward motion of the animal paired with the downward force of weight exerted through the blades served to cut grain into small pieces.

References

^ Lorraine Copeland; P. Wescombe (1965). Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 48, 146 & Figure XVII, p. 163. Imprimerie Catholique. Retrieved 21 July 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}
^ "Tools, Techniques and Tablets: Retracing Ancient Agricultural Heritage". www.archaeologychannel.org. Retrieved 2017-03-13.

[CopelandWescombe1965-1] Lorraine Copeland; P. Wescombe (1965). Inventory of Stone-Age sites in Lebanon, p. 48, 146 & Figure XVII, p. 163. Imprimerie Catholique. Retrieved 21 July 2011.^{[permanent dead link]}

[2] "Tools, Techniques and Tablets: Retracing Ancient Agricultural Heritage". www.archaeologychannel.org. Retrieved 2017-03-13.

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