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Old Wheat sled

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StevenT:
I was recently on vacation in California. I was in a shop in Sonoma and saw this. If you look in the first picture, you can see both sled runners. Someone had take the runners and made a shelving unit out of them. The second picture shows the bottom of the sled and this was the interesting part. The runners had a ton of slots cut in the wood and in each slot was a knapped piece of flint. When I asked what it was originally used for, I was told they were the runners on an old sled that was pulled over wheat stalks to separate the wheat grain from the stalks. I thought it was pretty cool the way the knapped stones was used.

Chippintuff:
I wonder whether any other people have used such a tool. Is there any archaeological evidence for such tools anywhere in the world? Of course I have no idea how old that thing may be. How would it be used? On a wheat floor? Surely not in the field.

WA

le0n:
wiki: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threshing_board

Tower:
I've never seen anything like that.   It's kinda like stepping back several thousand years into the past.  COOL!

mullet:
That would be neat to find and see what kind of flakes were used.

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