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This list excludes tools and tool use attributed to non-hominin species. See Tool use by non-humans. Since there are far too many hominin tool sites to list on a single page, this page attempts to list the 6 or fewer top candidates for oldest tool site within each significant geographic area.
Agricultural equipment is any kind of machinery used on a farm to help with farming. The best-known example of this kind is the tractor . From left to right: John Deere 7800 tractor with Houle slurry trailer, Case IH combine harvester, New Holland FX 25 forage harvester with corn head.
There are many types of such equipment, from hand tools and power tools to tractors and the farm implements that they tow or operate. Machinery is used in both organic and nonorganic farming. Especially since the advent of mechanised agriculture , agricultural machinery is an indispensable part of how the world is fed.
Ancient stone tools from Ethiopia were hand-crafted by Australopithecus or related people. [1] [2] [further explanation needed] 2.3 Mya: Earliest likely control of fire and cooking, by Homo habilis [3] [4] [5] 1.76 Mya: Advanced stone tools in Kenya by Homo erectus [6] [7] 1.75 Mya – 150 kya: Varying estimates for the origin of language [8] [9]
Like other farming tools, the sickle can be used as an improvised bladed weapon. Examples include the Japanese kusarigama and kama, the Chinese chicken sickles, and the makraka of the Zande people of north central Africa. Paulus Hector Mair, the author of a German Renaissance combat manual also has a chapter about fighting with sickles. It is ...
7000 BC – agriculture had reached southern Europe with evidence of emmer and einkorn wheat, barley, sheep, goats, and pigs suggest that a food producing economy is adopted in Greece and the Aegean. 7000 BC – Cultivation of wheat, sesame, barley, and eggplant in Mehrgarh (modern day Pakistan).
Agricultural Tools A group tools used either farming, culture, ceremony etc. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. B.
A rake (Old English raca, cognate with Dutch hark, German Rechen, from the root meaning "to scrape together", "heap up") is a broom for outside use; a horticultural implement consisting of a toothed bar fixed transversely to a handle, or tines fixed to a handle, and used to collect leaves, hay, grass, etc., and in gardening, for loosening the ...