The Higher Values of the Zoological Park (Classic Reprint) PDF Download

Author: Charles Atwood Kofoid
Publisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780265571491
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 22

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Excerpt from The Higher Values of the Zoological Park The evidences of man's long and continuous association with the beasts of the field and forest accumulate with each study of his prehistoric settlements. This appears not only in the refuse of his villages accumulated through long ages in shell mounds and kitchen middens where the bones of the mammals, birds, fishes and the shells of mollusks which he gathered in his search for food, constitute no small part of the mounds that mark the village sites of the ancient hunters, but also wherever we turn to the study of his folk-lore, his art, or his religion. It is interesting to note that the explorations now in pro gress on the skeletal material recovered from the Emeryville Shell mound on the shores of San Francisco Bay reveal not only the bones of those mammals and birds used for food or for clothing, but also of representatives of practically all the larger birds and mammals known to inhabit the region. It is of course possible that the Indians used all of these animals either for food, clothing, adornment, or for ritual, and that these more or less utilitarian motives led to the hunt, the capture or association of these early Californians with this wide range of animals of their long distant day. It is a far call from Indian on the windy and fog-shrouded shores of the Bay of St. Francis to the stately and attractive park about us here where the animal life, not only of this west ern coast, but also of far distant lands, finds a comfortable and provident home, and a sympathetic rather than hostile welcome from throngs of interested visitors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.