AGRICULTURE HOESince ancient times, one of the main lessons rights were gathering. That word modern scientists to collect edible seeds imply, nuts, fruits, roots, larvae, eggs, etc. The main tool in the gathering were billet-digger, one end of which the focus was on fire and burnt to strength. But already in very ancient times, along with it has become used a stick with transverse knots, more convenient for digging the earth. In this gear, you can see a prototype of hoes. Later, the working part of the sticks were made of horn or bone. Finally there were the stone hoes, planted on a wooden handle.  Photo — «Agriculture Hoe» This tool can trench the ground, flip it and break komya. When people moved to the cultural cultivation of plants, hoe over several millennia, agriculture remains the principal tool for farmers. However, the path from a simple collection of edible plants and fruits to the conscious cultivation of the land and the cultivation of crops was overwhelmingly long and drawn out to hundreds of thousands of years. One of the earliest farming cultures of the earth has about 9-8 thousand years BC in the territory of Palestine. Excavations in the mountains of Caramel give reason to argue that local residents are not only systematically collected wild barley, but also to produce crops.  Photo — «Agriculture Hoe» However, it can be assumed that in the tropics conscious farming arose even earlier. The study of such crops as bananas, leads to think that their cultural cultivation began about 15 thousand years BC Along with agriculture began a new era in the history of mankind. Since that time, people began not only to assign the fruits of nature, but deliberately to make them. Their life has become less dependent on the vagaries of nature, but from the results of their own activities. |
