Sickle gloss texture analysis elucidates long-term change in plant harvesting during the transition to agriculture

We acknowledge all the archaeologists who excavated the sites from which the glossed tools analyzed in this paper have been recovered: Dr. J. Cauvin, Dr H. Gebel, Dr. D. Stordeur, Dr- M. Molist, Dr. E. Coqueugniot, Dr. F. Valla, Dr. A.M.T. Moore and Dr. O. Bar-Yosef. The research has been funded by the Spanish Ministry of Science (PID2019-105767GB-I00), the Shelby White-Leon Levy Foundation (Publication of Tell Qarassa), the Palarq Foundation (Excavation of Kharaysin) and the Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas (Proyectos Intramurales para Arqueologia en el Exterior).