农业的起源是漫长的、渐进的过程。史前“农业革命”与“新石器”两个不同的事件之间并没有必然的联系。史料记载,华夏农业起源时期的主要农具是耒和耜。“农业革命”时期,农具的种类分为农耕用具、收割用具和加工用具三类。农耕类有耒、耜、锄、铲等;收割类有刀、至、镰、柌等;加工类有杵、臼、柫等,有些是木制,有些是石制,而大多演化为木石复合工具。在石器时代遗址中已发现了一批留存在远古土层中的木制农具的痕迹,而且,近年来出土了远古农具耒耜等考古实物。民族学调查也为研究远古农具耒耜等提供了许多旁证资料。考古发掘出的磨制石器刀、斧和斤(斫、斨),大多装有木柄,是古代狩猎、格斗、切割的武器,又是伐木、砍柴、斨材的工具;到“农业革命”时期,加工木石复合农具是磨制石器最基本的功能类型。此外,先民还发明了木石复合的汲水灌溉农具——桔槔等。因此,过去所谓“石器时代”(Stone Age)应该修正为“木石器时代”(Wood-Stone Age)。 The origin of agriculture is a long, gradual process. There is no necessary connection between the two different events of prehistoric “agrarian revolution” and “Neolithic”. According to historical records, the main agricultural tools of the Huaxia agricultural period are 耒 and 耜. “Agricultural Revolution ” period, the type of agricultural tools into agricultural implements, harvesting appliances and processing equipment three categories. There are knives, mortar, pomfret and other types of processing, some are wood, some are stone, and most of them evolved into wood and stone composite tool. A number of traces of wooden farm implements left in ancient soil have been found in the Stone Age sites and, in recent years, archaeological objects such as ancient farm implements have been unearthed. Ethnological survey also provides a lot of circumstantial evidence for the study of ancient farm tools and so on. The stone tools, ax and jin (斫, 斨) that are excavated from archeology are mostly equipped with wooden handles. They are the weapons of ancient hunting, fighting and cutting. They are also tools for logging, cutting firewood, Revolution “period, processing wood composite tools is the most basic type of grinding stone. In addition, the ancestors also invented a composite stone-water irrigation tools - oranges and so on. Therefore, the so-called ”Stone Age“ in the past should be revised to ”Wood-Stone Age."