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Hoes and the First Farmers on Lithuanian Territory: from Hoe to Ard
Volume 26 (2019), pp. 66–79
Algirdas Girininkas  

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https://doi.org/10.15181/ab.v26i0.2023
Pub. online: 5 December 2019      Type: Article      Open accessOpen Access

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1 October 2019
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15 October 2019
Accepted
22 November 2019
Published
5 December 2019

Abstract

A hoe is a hand tool which appeared in Lithuania in post-glacial times together with the first population. Later, in the Mesolithic, the hoe became a universal tool used for versatile foraging purposes. Only antler hoes are known from these periods. The same function of hoes continued into the Neolithic/Bronze Age, with the only difference that their shapes changed, adapting to new work related to the cultivation of the first crops. In the Neolithic, stone and wooden hoes appeared along with antler hoes. In the Bronze Age, the function of hoes remained the same as in earlier times, but their wider use was related to hoefarming. The shape of hoes was changing, especially of snake-head hoes, which could be used for various ritual ceremonies. Only in the Middle to Late Bronze Age did the Neolithisation process come to an end, with the development of slash-and-burn agriculture and the domestication of animals. The first horn ards appeared in the Late Bronze Age.

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hoes boot-tree hoe snake-headed hoe ard points agriculture Lithuania

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