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 roots and tubers , tilling the soil, or burrowing animals and anthills . It is a term used in archaeology and anthropology to describe similar implements, which usually consists of little more than a sturdy stick which has been shaped or sharpened and sometimes hardened by being placed temporarily in a fire.
13-687: Karno may refer to: Plants [ edit ] Platysace maxwellii People [ edit ] Surname [ edit ] Fred Karno (1866–1941), British theatre impresario Norton S. Karno (born 1936), American attorney Rano Karno (born 1960), Indonesian actor and politician Rendra Karno (1920–1985), Indonesian actor Bung Karno, nickname of Sukarno (1901–1970), first President of Indonesia Given name [ edit ] Karno Barkah (1922–2009), Indonesian aviation pioneer Fictional characters [ edit ] Madelein Karno,
26-533: A digging stick . The younger tubers closest to the surface are preferred and can be eaten raw or roasted over a fire. Digging stick Fashioned with handles for pulling or pushing, it forms a prehistoric plough , and is also described as a type of hoe . Digging sticks more than 170,000 years old, made of boxwood by Neanderthals , have been found in Italy. In Mexico and the Mesoamerican region ,
39-543: A character from books written by Lene Kaaberbøl See also [ edit ] Karna (disambiguation) Topics referred to by the same term [REDACTED] This disambiguation page lists articles associated with the title Karno . If an internal link led you here, you may wish to change the link to point directly to the intended article. Retrieved from " https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Karno&oldid=1230452302 " Category : Disambiguation pages Hidden categories: Short description
52-531: A similar shape but differed in size: The Māori people traditionally use digging sticks, known as a kō 2 m (6 ft 7 in) to 3 m (9.8 ft)long pole was made of strong and long-lasting wood, with a footrest tied to the shaft and one end fashioned into a narrow blade. They were used for tilling soil ready for planting tubers , as well as for digging for roots or tubers, and in ceremonial use. The most common digging stick found in Ethiopia
65-614: A slender, erst to straggling habit and typically grows to a height of 0.3 to 1.2 metres (1 to 4 ft). It blooms between October and April producing white flowers. Found on plains and hills with a scattered distribution from the Mid West through the Wheatbelt and into the south west of the Goldfields-Esperance region of Western Australia where it grows in sandy, loamy, clay or lateritic soils. Initially described by
78-444: Is different from Wikidata All article disambiguation pages All disambiguation pages Platysace maxwellii Platysace maxwellii , commonly known as native potato or karno , is a shrub that is endemic to Western Australia . The Noongar names for the plant are karno and yook , with the latter name also referring to the closely related species Platysace deflexa which grows further south. The shrub has
91-624: Is the Gurage name, also the same word used by the Amhara , for a digging stick that differs in construction because of its forked form. It is used primarily to dig holes for construction, planting, and harvesting roots and tubers. This tool is used as a plow to turn over the soil of an entire field before planting. It is used to break clods of soil in areas where the soil is hard or in areas that may be too steep for ploughing, and to dig holes for construction or to transplant domestic plants. When compared to
104-585: Is the ankassay in Amharic , a Semitic language spoken in Ethiopia and the second-most spoken Semitic language in the world. The ankassay is a single shaft that is about 4–5 feet in length with a socket-hafted pointed iron blade as the tip. Two other digging sticks are unique to the Harar region located in East-Central Ethiopia, which are considered to be unusual due to their function beyond
117-600: The botanist Ferdinand von Mueller in 1892 as Trachymene maxwellii in the article Descriptions of new Australian plants, with occasional other annotations in the journal The Victorian Naturalist It was later reclassified into the Platysace genera in 1939 by C. Norman in the Journal of Botany, British and Foreign Aborigines used the plant as a food source since it produces large numbers of round tubers about 0.5 metres (1.6 ft) underground which are accessed using
130-556: The basic use of other digging sticks, and the use of one as a plough. The deungora is a particularly long digging stick, which is about 110 centimetres, or approximately 3.6 feet, in length with a socket-hafted pointed iron blade as the tip. What's unique about this digging stick is that a bored stone, about 15 centimetres in diameter, is attached at the opposing end. This stone shares the same form as other bored stones that have been discovered in archaeological sites in Africa . Maresha
143-757: The bottom tip shaved off at an angle. A 5 to 8 inch cross-piece made of antler, bone, or wood was fitted perpendicularly over the top of the stick, allowing the use of two hands to drive the tool into the ground. Since contact with the Europeans in the 19th century, Native Americans have also adapted the use of a metal in making digging sticks. Digging sticks are used by many of the Aboriginal peoples of Australia , for digging up roots and tubers and for ceremonial use . The Gunditjmara people of western Victoria used digging sticks, also known as "yam sticks", for digging yams , goannas , ants and other foods out of
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#1732786711961156-705: The digging stick was the most important agricultural tool throughout the region. The coa stick normally flares out into a triangle at the end and is used for cultivating maize . It is still used for agriculture in some indigenous communities, with some newer 20th-century versions having the addition of a little metal tip. Other digging sticks, according to Native Americans of the Columbia Plateau, have been used since time immemorial to gather edible roots like balsamroot, bitterroot, camas, and varieties of biscuitroot. Typical digging sticks were and are still about 2 to 3 feet in length, usually slightly arched, with
169-421: The ground, as well as for defence, for settling disputes and for punishment purposes as part of customary law . The Kuman people east-central New Guinea were horticulturists who used basic tools such as the digging stick, wooden hoe, and wooden spade in their daily lives. Eventually they started to use more sophisticated tools such as iron spades and pick-axes. Two main types of digging sticks both shared
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