Re: Great Article: Serva&Petroni, An Indo-European Tree & Glottochronology (July 2008)

On 2008-09-30, Darkstar wrote:

"the digging stick"
What's that? Probably, just "stick (n)" :-) Or is it the stick used
by early agriculturalists?

Yes, it's a pointy stick used either for digging up tubers (this may
not count as "agriculture") or for poking holes in the soil (or ash
and soil, in slash-and-burn farming) to plant seeds.


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