ancient farming tools
TRANSCRIPT
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.
.
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