TRANSITION FHUM TIMIIAI- SOCIETY 



Population multiplied rapidly under these improved 

 conditions, and the food supply became inadiH) un- 

 certain densely peopled regions. Presumably by aooi- 



d-'iil, it \\.-i- found that the seeds would multiply th-m 



^, and that tin- stick was more effective for grubhiim 

 than the band; when ' Us were made we 



have the beginninif of tin :ti..n of th< soil. But 



.we must not think <>f \\.\- agricultural stage* of food get- 

 ting as always following upon the nomadic or pastoral 

 stage, because the resources of many regions will i 

 a- hull <>f agriculture and can only funiMi a scant subsist- 

 ence for an occasional wan.lcrinir h.-nl. Thus the transi- 



was not an in\ ariaMe one from pastoral to agr 

 tural. hut iuite as likely there wa> the change from 

 huntinir to airriculf :ce we often find ainonir primi- 



tive peoples a degree of agriculture comhine,! with the 

 hunt HILT or fishing stage. We cannot assert the exact 

 chronological sequence of these stages because knowledge 



; the details is lacking. Some of the most careful in- 

 vestigators now IM-H.-VC that the <1 .ition of animals 

 was not the ut of the hunter at all, but of the 

 primitiv* t;n tin r. and ilat the pastoral stage was an out- 

 growth of early agriculture. At any - reason- 

 al.ly MM r tliat the primitive tilling of the soil wa- 

 on by the huntrs' wives and daughters as a subordinate 

 and auxiliary means of support." Only at a much lat-r 

 ^i It ure acquire more i in; >ort an until 

 the game supply had be. -n pr.x ti< ;il!\ < \hausted and the 

 roving life of the hunter made im] Me was chi 



m put upon agricultnr. . M It t!i. food supply was 

 hy the system of raising flocks and herds it was 

 made douhly se< ui e by crop raising. As grain and w 



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