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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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| In the meantime, they detach bands, or "brigades" as they are termed, of trappers in various directions, assigning to each a portion of country as a hunting or trapping ground. They presented Don Quixote with a hunting suit, and Sancho with another of the finest green cloth; but Don Quixote declined to put his on, saying that he must soon return to the hard pursuit of arms, and could not carry wardrobes or stores with him. So Lina said, no, she would never repeat it to anyone, and then the cook said: 'Early tomorrow morning, when the forester is out hunting, I will heat the water, and when it is boiling in the kettle, I will throw in Fundevogel, and will boil him in it. |