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mony in many places in central Europe. Evidently man soon 

 devised weapons, clubs, and spears perhaps, and later bows and 

 arrows. Then he became a wandering hunter having no fixed 

 home and changing his abode whenever game became scarce in 

 any one locality. 



With a widespread scarcity of game came the necessity of taming 

 and raising food animals. Thus we have the herdsman wandering 

 with his flocks from place to place, as pasturage and food were 

 exhausted. Domestication of animals probably began with taming 



FIG. 109. Remains of the Neanderthal man, in the Provincial Museum 

 of Bonn. From Weltall u. Menschheit, see Kellogg. 



the wolf to aid him in the hunt, but the real progress was made 

 when tame cattle, sheep, and goats, partly took the place of wilder 

 game. 



A wonderful advance was made when man hit upon the idea of 

 cultivating food plants for his flocks and himself. This permitted 

 a fixed habitation and for the first time, a real " home life " had a 

 chance to develop, with all that it means in comfort and social 

 progress. Doubtless the house was but a cave or tree shelter, but 

 when man settled to remain in one place, to cultivate and gather 



