Harvesting cereals and other plants in Neolithic Iberia: the assemblage from the lake settlement at La Draga

Marvellous preservation of organic materials at the Neolithic site of La Draga in north-east Iberia include a range of wooden harvesting tools. The authors examine the wood and flint to describe a range of the earliest harvesting techniques and their diverse applications. Keywords: Iberia, Neolithic, sixth-fifth millennia cal BC, agriculture, cereals, harvesting tools
Introduction The first evidence of the Neolithic in north-eastern Iberia appears about the middle of the sixth millennium cal BC. Until that time, the area had been occupied by hunter-gatherer [...]