SC - Agriculture-more tho'ts

[Mordonnade at aol.com]

In a message dated 98-01-31 10:21:26 EST, you write:

<< 
 Therefore, I find it both unfactual and not a little misleading to
 characterize the praxes of agriculture in the MA as primitive especially when
 those observations are based on archeological digs of remote northern
 settlements occurring in the Dark Ages.  It even more misleading to
 extrapolate the results of these findings unto the agricultural practices of
 main centers of civilization during the period extending from 1200 c.e. to
 1500 c.e.
 
 Ras >>

I saw an article I think in this month's Discover Magazine that states that
most of the "henges" in Britain are in fact cattle pens.  It seems the
neolithic Brits combined animal husbandry with their religion.
At any rate, it would be incorrect to assume that modern husbandry practices
are vast improvements on ancient ones.  Animal husbandry (sheperding and
breeding)) was practiced by man long before agriculture.  Men followed the
herds for thousands of years before they thought to plant the grains that made
stationary farming possible.  Not only that, but most beasts until VERY modern
times were raised by people who LIVED with their beasts, and knew them well,
indeed.


Mordonna DuBois
House Warrior Haven
Barony of Atenveldt
Kingdom of Atenveldt
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