Ancient Farming Tools

Slide presentation for the Comenius Project "Lost In Time"

1. ANCIENT FARMING TOOLS

2. the AX the ax is a tool used for cutting wood

3. The stone-age hand axe was used from 1.5 million years BP without a handle. The evolution of the axe It was later fastened to a wooden handle .

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

5. I t was also used as a weapon for fighting in the Middle Ages. The use of the ax

6. When agriculture was first developed, simple hand-held digging sticks and hoes were used The Plough The rudimentary plough, a modified tree branch, was later adapted to pulling by oxen . .

7. 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 . the basic parts of the modern plough: 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

8. DIGGING STICK 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. .

9. DIGGING STICK   The earliest plows were doubtless digging sticks fashioned with handles for pulling or pushing.

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

11. In Sumerian mythology, the invention of the hoe was credited to  Enlil . Enlil was considered to be the god of breath and wind .

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

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

14. 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”. THE DEATH

15. III M IPAA Designed for Comenius project “ Lost in Time” 2014