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... domestication of animals . This began , it would seem , with the dog , but if Eduard Hahn was correct , it included such barnyard animals as the pig and the duck . The third stage , then , would be mesolithic plant cultivation , which ...
... domestication of animals . This began , it would seem , with the dog , but if Eduard Hahn was correct , it included such barnyard animals as the pig and the duck . The third stage , then , would be mesolithic plant cultivation , which ...
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... domestication Hahn postulated a cor- relative advance in animal domestication : the domestication of the dog and the pig . About the fact that the dog was the earliest creature to be domes- ticated , biologists and ethnologists are ...
... domestication Hahn postulated a cor- relative advance in animal domestication : the domestication of the dog and the pig . About the fact that the dog was the earliest creature to be domes- ticated , biologists and ethnologists are ...
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... domestication was man ; and the very word we use to describe the process reveals its point of origin . For ' domus ' means home ; and the first step in domestication , which made all the later ones possible , was the establishment of a ...
... domestication was man ; and the very word we use to describe the process reveals its point of origin . For ' domus ' means home ; and the first step in domestication , which made all the later ones possible , was the establishment of a ...
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PROLOGUE | 3 |
THE MINDFULNESS OF MAN | 14 |
IN THE DREAMTIME LONG AGO | 48 |
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