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Excerpt from Flint Chips: A Guide to Pre-Historic Archaeology, as Illustrated by the Collection in the Blackmore Museum, Salisbury
With the introduction of agriculture all this was changed a more settled mode of life was adopted, and men were enabled to congregate in particular spots without risk of starvation; this naturally led to the sub-division of labour, to the establish ment of commerce, and to a general advance in civilization. Up to the present time there is no evidence to Show that men Of the earliest (palaeolithic) period practised agriculture; neither do they seem to have domesticated any Of the wild animals. They appear to have subsisted, exclusively, by hunting. The cultivation of cereals for food seems to have arisen, independently, in the Old World and in America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.
