Carl O. Sauer is a geographer whose special interest is the way in which particular plants and animals have become domesticated by particular people. The classical view of agricultural development has held that mankind progresses in stages from hunting through pastoral nomadism through agriculture. Professor Sauer's quite different premises are these: agriculture did not originate from a shortage of food: domestication is found in areas of marked diversity in plants or animals; primitive cultivators could not establish themselves in large river valleys subject to flood; agriculture began in wooded lands; the inventors of agriculture had previously acquired special skills that predisposed them to agricultural experiments; the founders of agriculture were sedentary folk. Professor Sauer contends that it is a combination of special inclination and a relative amount of leisure time which caused certain people to domesticate certain animals and plants.

Agricultural Origins and Dispersals - The Domestication of Animals and Foodstuffs

Carl O. Sauer

MIT Press]

<p>Originally published under the title <i>Agricultural Origins and Dispersals: The Domestication of Animals and Foodstuffs</i></p>

Seeds, Spades, Hearths, and Herds

Politics & Social Sciences

Anthropology

The MIT Press

Agricultural Origins And Dispersals

Agricultural Origins and Dispersals

Franklin Classics Trade Press

The Geographic Society of Chicago, Vol. 6: Starved Rock State Park and Its Environs (Classic Reprint)

Science & Math

Earth Sciences

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Excerpt from The Geographic Society of Chicago, Vol. 6: Starved Rock State Park and Its EnvironsSurvey; and Professor Cowles, of the University of Chicago - for their several contributions, which have been made without expense to the Society. The compensation of the authors must come from the grati tude of those who use the volume. If it shall prove that they have helped others to see, to understand, and to appreciate, they will feel repaid for their work.The Geological Survey of the state, ever mindful of the interests of the citizens of the state, has generously furnished the topographic and geologic maps which accompany the volume, and has, from the beginning, encouraged in every way the preparation of the volume.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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