Digging Stick with Bored Stone Weight Replica

A long wooden digging stick with a chisel-shaped point at one end and a doughnut-shaped bored stone slid onto the shaft near the top, held in place with a few turns of lashing. The stick has a wood-grain texture. Digging sticks were among the most important tools of gatherers everywhere, used to dig up roots, bulbs and tubers. In southern Africa, San people fitted bored stones onto their digging sticks to add weight and force, and similar perforated stones are found at Later Stone Age sites in…

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