hunting
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hunting - events
| c. 10000 BC–c. 7000 BC | Europe | The Mesolithic or Middle Stone Age begins in northern Europe. It is a food-gathering way of life, based on fishing and fowling rather than wide-range hunting; and it is adapted to new conditions, either a forest or a waterside environment, with humans forced to the periphery by the all-pervading forest. Economically and materially it is to some extent a retrograde step from the easy hunting days of the Palaeolithic Age. The ‘kitchen midden’ sites (as on the Danish coast) show people living close to or on top of a huge dump of the discarded remains of shellfish. |
| 1410 | England | Edward, Duke of York, translates The Master of Game, which is largely an English translation of the French Count Gaston Phoebus' treatise on hunting of 1391 Le Déduits de chasse/The Pleasures of the Hunt (or Le Miroir de Phoebus/The Mirror of Phoebus). |
| 1859 | Australia | The Australian landowner Thomas Austin imports two dozen English rabbits, so that he can shoot them for sport: the rabbits multiply rapidly, causing a major agricultural problem in Australia. |
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