Show the earliest hoes since agriculture encourages fixed habitations the hoe played a chief part in a dundam fundamental revolution in the life of mankind the establishment in the new stone age of permanent communities the earliest hoes were forked sticks and the pick is a variety of the same implement pl ement says a writer in the pleasure of publishing antlers anglers of animals have been used as hoes and hoes have been made by fastening suitable shells to sticks the hoe shared in mans progress in the use of wrought stone copper bronze iron and steel when the blade became good enough a variety of the hoe the adz was used tor for working wood the plow an invention of the bronze age is another development of the hoe even today the hoe is one of the primary symbols of agriculture despite the coming of mechanized farming the use of the hoe to yield plenty to households and communities has been associated with festivals all the staple farm crops were first domesticated by man with a hoe |