This paper discusses the beginning and development of cereal cultivation in the Fayum Neolithic of northern Egypt by restudying flint sickle blades, which were found and poorly published by the British archaeologist Gertrude Caton-Thompson in the early twentieth century and are presently stored in the British Museum, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at Uni...

This paper discusses the beginning and development of cereal cultivation in the Fayum Neolithic of northern Egypt by restudying flint sickle blades, which were found and poorly published by the British archaeologist Gertrude Caton-Thompson in the early twentieth century and are presently stored in the British Museum, the Petrie Museum of Egyptian Archaeology at Uni...