digging sticks
Primitive soil breakers
Digging sticks are simple tools used for breaking up soil, uprooting plants, or prying out tubers and roots.
Among the oldest human implements, they consist of a pointed wooden shaft, sometimes fire-hardened or tipped with stone.
Indigenous peoples worldwide have used digging sticks for foraging and early agriculture: She loosened the wild yams with a digging stick.
Cultivating soil for crops
- furrowingCutting narrow trenches
- sowingPlanting for cultivation
- plantingPlacing seeds in earth
- hoeingTilling with a blade
seedbed · soil preparation · cultivation · ridging · trenching · weeding · mounding · loosening
Underground nutrient absorbers
- tubersUnderground plant storage organs
- grubsImmature beetle stage
- bulbsUnderground plant storage
- cormsSwollen underground stem bases
yams · wild onions · gathering · unearthing · subsistence · edible plants · rhizomes · groundnuts
Act of unearthing
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- anthropologyStudy of human cultures
- archaeologistsScientists studying past cultures
stratigraphy · site · in situ · lithics · paleolithic · neolithic · ethnographic · museum
Indigenous to a place
- First NationsCanada's non-Inuit indigenous peoples
- traditional knowledgeCommunity wisdom across generations
- ancestralOf one's forebears
- ceremonyFormal event marking occasions
cultural practice · bushcraft · dreamtime · land management · oral tradition · elder · country · songlines
tilling
Cultivating soil for crops
hoeing · seedbed · soil preparation · cultivation · ridging · trenching · weeding · mounding · loosening · breaking ground
roots
Underground nutrient absorbers
corms · yams · wild onions · gathering · unearthing · subsistence · edible plants · rhizomes · groundnuts · harvesting
excavation
Act of unearthing
- artifactsHuman-made historical objects
- prehistoricBefore documented civilization
- anthropologyStudy of human cultures
archaeologists · stratigraphy · site · in situ · lithics · paleolithic · neolithic · ethnographic · museum · burial sites
aboriginal
Indigenous to a place
- First NationsCanada's non-Inuit indigenous peoples
- traditional knowledgeCommunity wisdom across generations
- ancestralOf one's forebears
ceremony · cultural practice · bushcraft · dreamtime · land management · oral tradition · elder · country · songlines · custodians
wooden
Made from timber
handle · shaft · tip · hardwood · multipurpose · hand tool · traditional tools · carved · ergonomic · durable
- prehistorystone tools, Neolithic, Stone Age, caveman, cavemen
- Aboriginal Prehistorystone tools, boomerangs, didgeridoo, spears, rock shelters
- Andean agriculturequinoa, potatoes, potato, terraces, terrace farming
- indigenous farmingthree sisters, terrace farming, terraces, terracing, maize
- Mesoamerican agriculturemaize, cacao, squash, amaranth, chia
- primitive skillsstone tools, bow drill, hand drill, cordage, basket weaving
digging sticksbackhoe
Hinged-arm excavating machine
excavator · power shovel · bulldozer · trencher · earth mover
digging, sticks, stick, digs, digger, diggers, sticking, stuck, sticky