Digging stick
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A digging stick, sometimes called a yam stick, is a wooden implement used primarily by subsistence-based cultures to dig out underground food such as roots and tubers, tilling the soil, or burrowing a
A digging stick of the Pacific Northwest coast
Nuba person farming in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan
A Māori digging stick
Plough
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A plough or plow is a farm tool for loosening or turning soil before sowing seed or planting. Ploughs were traditionally drawn by oxen and horses but modern ploughs are drawn by tractors. A plough may
Digging stick
…shaped or sharpened and sometimes hardened by being placed temporarily in a fire. Fashioned with handles for pulling or pushing, it forms a prehistoric plough, and is also described as a type of hoe. Digging sticks more than 170,000 years old, made of boxwood by Neanderthals, have been found in Italy. The…
Traditional ploughing: a farmer works the land with horses and plough
Water buffalo used for ploughing in Laos
13th century depiction of a ploughing
Ancient Egyptian ard, c. 1200 BCE. (Burial chamber of Sennedjem)