Wooden Tools (Base Register)

Wood is one of the most readily available resources available to man, at hand in almost any environment, from tropical jungles to the cold expanses of the tundra. From simple sticks and clubs, mankind has evolved the tools they work with into devices of sometimes startling effectiveness, which can be re-made wherever the right wood is at hand.

Discovery and Development
To a certain extent, primates have manipulated wooden tools for millenia - twigs were used to gather termites from their nests, clubs of fallen wood used to crack skulls and so on. These simple uses of wood are still somewhat retained by humanity, but have also been advanced and reworked, with Homo Sapiens being unique in shaping the tools they used to fit a set purpose. A simple method of shaping wood is to carve it with harder tools, flint knives being a good example of such an implement, but other methods to crack, strip, set and join wooden tools have been developed to make items from wooden hoes to boomerangs possible. As an aside, wood is often used with other materials as a handle for a more complex tool or weapon.