ancient farming tools

the ax is a tool used for

cutting wood

The stone-age hand axe was used from 1.5 million years BP without a handle.

It was later fastened to a

wooden handle.

Axes made of copper, bronze, iron, steel appeared as these technologies developed.

It was also used as a weapon for fighting in the Middle Ages.

When agriculture was first developed, simple hand-held digging sticks and hoes were used

The rudimentary plough, a modified tree branch, was later adapted to pulling by oxen.

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A coulter is a vertically mounted component of many plows

that cuts an edge about 18 cm. Its most effective depth is

determined by soil conditions.

A Ploughshare is the cutting or leading edge of

a moldboard which closely follows the coulter

when plowing.

A Mouldboard is wedge formed by the

curved part of a steel blade that turns

the furrow

D I G G I N G S T I C K

• It consistis of a pointed stick,

sometimes with an attached stone or

crossbar, used to loosen and till the

soil and to extract plant foods..

D I G G I N G S T I C K

The earliest plows were doubtless

digging sticks fashioned with

handles for pulling or pushing.

A hoe is an ancient and versatile agricultural tool used to move small amounts of soil.

In Sumerian mythology, the invention of the hoe was credited to Enlil.

Enlil was

considered

to be the

god of

breath and

wind.

SICKLE

A sickle is a hand-held agricultural tool with a variously curved blade typically used for harvesting grain crops or cutting succulent forage.

The sickle appeared in Europe in the 12th century. Its use has greatly diminished after the onset of mechanical mowers.

History

The scythe often appears as weapon in the hands of death. This stems mainly from the Christian Biblical belief of death as a “harvester of souls”.

Designed for Comenius project “ Lost in Time” 2014