Asher Kelman
OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
I escaped from a downpour into a coffee shop, “Le Pain Quotidien“ and grabbed a fresh coffee.
I was surprised to see a 2 meter vintage wooden board with inlaid sharp stone flint blades arranged in rows.
The entire contraption seemed like a sled.
But the blades needed explanation. Didn’t seem this was for transport in snow!
Perhaps over a frozen lake?
Then it occurred to me that this was for “cutting” and so threshing grains, recovering the seeds from all the stalks and chaffe required some efficient mechanism for running production for scaled-up agriculture.
It turns out that folk sat or stood on these boards and oxen or a horse pulled them over the later out grain on the threshing floor.
Asher
I was surprised to see a 2 meter vintage wooden board with inlaid sharp stone flint blades arranged in rows.
The entire contraption seemed like a sled.
But the blades needed explanation. Didn’t seem this was for transport in snow!
Perhaps over a frozen lake?
Then it occurred to me that this was for “cutting” and so threshing grains, recovering the seeds from all the stalks and chaffe required some efficient mechanism for running production for scaled-up agriculture.
It turns out that folk sat or stood on these boards and oxen or a horse pulled them over the later out grain on the threshing floor.
Asher
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