>>2757136Also for planting stakes, setting up fire pits, digging out roots for cordage, and perhaps most importantly burying your logs. Still, a shovel is less than ideal for denser soil/clay, and adzes can do so much more wrt wood.
Pre-5000 BC, stone adzes were all that was used for working wood in Central Europe.
>>2757246Traditional German mattocks have massive implements on either side.
