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Animal Hunt and the Way It Influenced Human Evolution. An Attempt to Provide an Ecohistory Insight

Author(s): Tomislav Krznar
Subject(s): History
Published by: Društvo za hrvatsku ekonomsku povijest i ekohistoriju - Izdavačka kuća Meridijani
Keywords: animal hunting; game hunt; anthropology; creation of man; prehistory; ecohistory

Summary/Abstract: In this paper the author tries to show the compexity of the hunt. It is known that hunting had a great influence on human development in every aspect (physical, spiritual, social etc.) When a man started to hunt, especially when he started to hunt successfully, he got in touch with food of energetically higher quality. Human relation towards the enviroment, based on the human technological knowledge and growth of population, has become more and more destructive. Ecohystorical dimension is traying to show double conection beetween nature and man. It is understandable that hunt, as a basic form of human relation towards the enviroment, was instrument of destruction of nature and of the enviroment. On the other hand hunt was a ground for the development of the agriculture.

  • Issue Year: 2009
  • Issue No: 5
  • Page Range: 59-77
  • Page Count: 19
  • Language: Croatian