Hand tools built to cut, shape or smooth wood, the implement set behind this atlas's Wood and Furniture craft subcategories. Belongs here: the hand plane, used to shave and smooth a wood surface, and the lathe, used to turn a wood workpiece against a cutting edge. Does not belong here: tools that shape other materials even by a superficially similar cutting or turning action, such as the potter's wheel, grouped under Ceramics and Pottery Tools.
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Among the earliest finds of woodworking are shaped sticks displaying notches from Kalambo Falls in southern Africa, dating to around 476,000 years ago.
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