ONCE AGAIN ABOUT THE USE OF IRON SICKLES AND small scythes BY THE MIDDLE AGES POPULATION OF THE Upper Kama Region
The article is devoted to reaping tools on the territory of the Upper Prikamye in the Middle Ages. All finds of sickles and small scythes "Gorbusha" found at archaeological sites of the study area are considered. Of particular interest are the first finds in the Perm Cis-Urals of entire medieval small scythes braids found in the cultural layer (Rozhdestvenskoe settlement). It is concluded that along with iron sickles and scythes "Gorbusha" braids, wooden tools were apparently more widely used, analogues of which were not preserved in archaeological or ethnographic materials of the Perm Urals population.