pensylvanica sometimes called Bird Cherry) were used for much the same purposes: the fruit was eaten fresh, or pounded into cakes and dried for storage; from it's hard wood came
digging sticks, club handles, drying racks, and tongs to move hot stones from fire pits to paunches; steeped from the bark were tonics, and remedies for cold symptoms.
Armed with
digging sticks, shovels, trowels and screwdrivers, these explorers scour the hillsides for the telltale bunch of brilliant red berries that give away the location of one of the most valuable plants of the woods: ginseng.
Using radiocarbon dating, researchers pinpointed the ages of wooden
digging sticks, ostrich eggshell beads, bone awls and stone flakes that may have been part of a sophisticated hunter-gatherer toolkit-cum-jewelry box.
Organic artifact assemblages at Border Cave dating to the Later Stone Age included ostrich eggshell beads, thin bone arrowhead points, wooden
digging sticks, a gummy substance called pitch that was used to haft, or attach, bone and stone blades to shafts and a lump of beeswax likely used for hafting.
The traditional ceremony included the use of o o, or Hawaiian
digging sticks. The project is being built by Kahuku Wind Power LLC, a unit of Massachusetts-based First Wind.
The exhibition features interactive displays and imaginative exhibits using authentic artefacts such as traditional Inuit coats from northern Canada, cloaks and veils worn in the Sahara desert and Aboriginal
digging sticks to explain life in contrasting environments including the Arctic, the desert and the city.
They manufacture a variety of
digging sticks to feed on ants, termites and honey.
Colonial hemp cultivators used rudimentary soil preparation hand tools such as
digging sticks, hoes, rakes and spades to loosen the soil.
* At our horticultural stage--farming with
digging sticks or hoes, which pregnant women could do without miscarrying--the cultural worldview was "magical" and people were generally EGOcentric.
A sandstone axe is fairly hard to use, but works especially well for cutting small trees about the size you would use for
digging sticks.
Other icons include concentric circles, animal tracks, arcs (boomerangs), lines (
digging sticks), and U-shapes (sitting human).
Firesticks and
digging sticks, for example, widely used bv children from an early age, are represented by five examples only (p.