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Cereal production
(Murray 2000: 505-536)

tilling
- creating a fine soil
with hoe or ploughing ard

after inundation (October-November)

UC 16694, wooden from Lahun

raking the soil to break up clods of earth
 
sowing
in October or November
   

trampling in
of the grain by animals to protect the seeds from birds and other pests

     
growing of the plants
about 6 months
 

harvest
primary tool: sickle

earliest February to latest May

see the scene of a harvest

sickles

threshing
separation of emmer spikelets and hulled barley grains from the cereal straw

     

winnowing
to separate the threshed cereal spikelets from the remaining straw

 
sieving
for further cleaning the emmer spikelets and hulled barley
     
measuring the grain
     

storage
of grain and straw

 

 


 

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