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...
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South African Archaeological Society (redirect from The Digging Stick)
published. A newsletter, started in 1978, has been known from 1984 as The Digging Stick. Individual branches have, in addition, brought out their own newsletters...
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A tally stick (or simply a tally) was an ancient memory aid used to record and document numbers, quantities, and messages. Tally sticks first appear as...
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stick Digging stick Swizzle stick, used to stir drinks Bandy stick, used in bandy Cue stick, used in pool, snooker and carom billiards Hockey stick,...
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survival tool, the throwing stick is one of the most effective and easiest tools to obtain. It can be used as a digging tool for making fire-pits and...
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amaranth, tomatoes, chili peppers, and flowers. Maize was planted with digging stick huictli [wikt͡ɬi] with a wooden blade on one end. The word chinampa...
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southward and dug up many of the island's major lakes using a magical kō (digging stick), filling them with food for his many descendants. Rākaihautū originally...
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Neolithic Revolution Founder crops New World crops Ard / plough Celt Digging stick Domestication Goad Irrigation Secondary products Sickle Terracing Food...
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place it, and I shall move the world." Autumn Stanley argues that the digging stick can be considered the first lever, which would position prehistoric...
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significance or astrological relevance. It is thought by some to be a tally stick, as it features a series of what has been interpreted as tally marks carved...
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or willow are driven into the ground or placed in holes made with a digging stick. These poles, which form the framework, are arranged at one-foot [0...
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Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo said, "you defeat the enemy with a pickaxe". Digging stick Pulaski William, Smith (1890). "A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities"...
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ancient technology, predating the plough and perhaps preceded only by the digging stick. In Sumerian mythology, the invention of the hoe was credited to Enlil...
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and human features began to emerge. Wetzel continued to spend summers digging at the site until 1961, and further finds of ivory were made on the cave...
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Neolithic Revolution Founder crops New World crops Ard / plough Celt Digging stick Domestication Goad Irrigation Secondary products Sickle Terracing Food...
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camouflage to approach near enough to deer for a shot. The woman carries a steel-tipped digging stick and a carrying basket for collecting wild tubers....
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Neolithic Revolution Founder crops New World crops Ard / plough Celt Digging stick Domestication Goad Irrigation Secondary products Sickle Terracing Food...
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CAUS-PST 3SG-GEN stick dig-INS throw-PST woman teenager ‘(The) woman caused her digging stick to be in (the) hand (i.e. picked up her digging stick), (and) threw...
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crayon commissioned by anthropologist Ronald Berndt, and the Djang'kawu digging stick, borrowed from its usual place alongside the Yirrkala bark petitions...
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recovered four wood tools from 390 ka to 324 ka, including a wedge, digging stick, cut log and notched branch....Object 660 (Kigelia africana), 36.2 cm...
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in the context of hunting, trance and southern African rock art. The Digging Stick 30 (1), 1-4. "3; Sympathetic magic", The Golden Bough, Project Gutenberg...
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from the island to the Chumash mainland tribes included shell beads, digging stick weights (stone rings), and steatite Lolas (stone bowl) which originates...
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Neolithic Revolution Founder crops New World crops Ard / plough Celt Digging stick Domestication Goad Irrigation Secondary products Sickle Terracing Food...
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about their use. Interpretations range from cutting and chopping tools, to digging implements, to flaking cores, to the use in traps, and as a purely ritual...
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Neolithic Revolution Founder crops New World crops Ard / plough Celt Digging stick Domestication Goad Irrigation Secondary products Sickle Terracing Food...
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Woman farming, using a digging stick in the Nuba Mountains, southern Sudan...
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Neolithic Revolution Founder crops New World crops Ard / plough Celt Digging stick Domestication Goad Irrigation Secondary products Sickle Terracing Food...
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Neolithic Revolution Founder crops New World crops Ard / plough Celt Digging stick Domestication Goad Irrigation Secondary products Sickle Terracing Food...
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Neolithic Revolution Founder crops New World crops Ard / plough Celt Digging stick Domestication Goad Irrigation Secondary products Sickle Terracing Food...
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Neolithic Revolution Founder crops New World crops Ard / plough Celt Digging stick Domestication Goad Irrigation Secondary products Sickle Terracing Food...
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