Tsayad 88 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 hutch... I challenge you to name a single place and culture where we see primitive people - whether hunter-gatherer, subsistence-farming, or a mixture of both, that has this kind of mythical, mutually-consenting relationship with the large predators in their area. Africa? No. Asia?... No. North America... Nope. Europe?... Not even slightly. What I've described has been observed and has been seen to work. The Jungle Book and the Just So Stories are fiction. Dating the domestication of plants and livestock is tentative, and speculative at best due to the ambiguous and ephemmeral nature of the evidence. Best guesses seem to be that domestication of the dog predates agriculture in any form, so best we accept that it was done by hunters and that agriculture had nothing to do with it. As a farmer I could tell you quite a bit about how humans relate to crop-eating animals, but it's not relevant if canines were domesticated before anyone was even growing crops or running livestock. So we are back to hunter-gatherers..... - Game does not gather around HG camps. - HGs see large predators both as competition and a threat to their children. - Large predators may scavenge, but they don't do that around HG villages, because HGs don't waste energy carrying unwanted bits back to camp. Scavenging happens in the hunting grounds, typically well away from camp. - Even in modern situations where large predators do scavenge human refuse, they do not become more tame. The consistent result is not friendliness to man, but increased agression. Quote Link to post
juckler123 707 Posted March 30, 2012 Report Share Posted March 30, 2012 (edited) Theres a theory we lived at one time by scaring them off their catches and getting what meat was left and also breaking the bones of carcasses if that were the case surely wed be watching them and waiting for their kills. Theres records of a few a few humans been brought up by different wild animals read a few things about wild kids the gazell boy was very interesting if a wild animal can bring up a human the other way round youd think would be easy. Edited March 30, 2012 by juckler123 Quote Link to post
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