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Hunting- A Brief History
People have been hunting for the sake of shelter, food and clothing since time immemorial. It predates civilization as we know it today in more ways than one. this notion can be confirmed by many discoveries. For instance, a recently discovered Asian fossilized spearhead dates to more than 16000 years ago. There is also enough evidence to prove that large animals were used as food more than two million years back.
Many experts claim that the hunting in its earliest form involved weapons such as bows and arrows, spears etc shot from a distance. Although it is difficult to believe, our ancestors caught food much the same way as we catch a train we are about to miss. They ran after it. Long before weapons came into the picture and before man discovered the use of long-range tools, he had no choice but to catch his dinner through persistence on a long trek, sometimes even in the hot midday sun. There were some hunters who chased antelopes in 100 degrees heat for over 20 miles. Persistence hunting was the necessary method. Often African hunters chased Kudus, which is a kind of antelope, by alarming the animal so that it runs away. The beast would be chased at a fast pace, and although the animal would be far ahead, the hunter would catch up with it when it stopped to rest in the shade. Eventually, the hunter would finish off the animal with a spear after he had reached a close enough range. This kind of hunting still prevails in South Africa.
As human society changed, so did hunting. People began growing their own food and keeping animals and so hunting came to become a specialized task. Hunting was no longer a just a masculine endeavor, but it became a duty that tradesmen had to acquire specialized training in. Another trend that caught was hunting becoming a sport or leisure activity for those belonging to the upper class. This is the context in which the word “game” gained popularity.
There are many other effects of hunting on modern society. A lot of animals are used to help out the hunter, but the one animal that has gained the top position is the dog. The dog is one step apart as the ancestors of wolves have also been used to retrieve the prey. The domestication of this animal, which has taken more than thousand years, is considered a great accomplishment. The connection between man, dog and hunting goes back to so long ago that in Greek, the word for hunting is derived from the word for dog.
The safari can be considered the most popular kind of hunt, which was made even more famous by the author Ernest Hemingway. The word is a Swahili word that means long journey and the most common safari are the ones that occur in Africa. It involves several days and weeks of camping and hunting or stalking animals. In the modern sense, a safari goes on to include trips to African national parks in order to watch or hunt big game. Unlike their ancestors who ran down their prey years ago, an African hunter nowadays have acquired special license and enlist the aid of professionals. There is also a new version of safari where none of the animals are killed. There is a safari called the photo safari, which is exactly what it sounds like. A polish photographer called this safari the bloodless hunt.
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How the Dog Became the Dog (Compact Disc) $23.4 Author Mark Derr casts the wolf`s transformation into the domestic dog as an evolutionary inevitability in his account of the biological and cultural domestication of man`s best friend. |
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How the Dog Became the Dog (Compact Disc) $17.81 Author Mark Derr casts the wolf`s transformation into the domestic dog as an evolutionary inevitability in his account of the biological and cultural domestication of man`s best friend. |
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How the Dog Became the Dog (Compact Disc) $49.1 Author Mark Derr casts the wolf`s transformation into the domestic dog as an evolutionary inevitability in his account of the biological and cultural domestication of man`s best friend. |