Portfolio > The Quest for Food: Excerpts
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Diets All illustrations by the author Ivan Crowe |
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Trapping
One way in which people have adapt to a more settled existence is by diversifying their food economy to avoid over exploitation of the resource base within their immediate habitat. Traps and snares may have begun to play a more significant part in acquiring food as some people adopted a more settled existence at the beginning of the Holocene, from about 15,000 years ago. |