Before revision: alt=|A digging stick In archaeology and anthropology, a digging stick, or sometimes yam stick, is a wooden implement used primarily by subsistence-based cultures to dig out underground food such as roots and tubers or burrowing animals and anthills.
After revision: alt=|A digging stick of the Pacific Northwest coastalt=|Nuba person farming in the Nuba Mountains, Sudan A digging stick, sometimes called a, tilling the soil, yam stick, is a wooden implement used primarily by subsistence-based cultures to dig out underground food such as roots and tubers or burrowing animals and anthills.