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Image number: 960
Feature : plough ard-type, maresha
Grouping : agricultural techniques
Discipline : agriculture
Year : 1999
Locality : Enda Maryam
Country : Ethiopia
Region - tribe : Tigray
Physiographic region : Abessinian highlands
Notice : notice Ploughing with two oxes. The wooden plough beam is inherited from father to son. Ploughing causes tillage erosion.
Reference : Moeyersons, Jan,   1999    Image 960.   In : Moeyersons, Jan : "African Geographic Pictures", http://www.africamuseum.be/en/research/collections_libraries/earth_sciences/collections/geopic"