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FOR hundreds of thousands of years, man 1 depended for food and clothing upon the products of the chase. As the last northern icecap retreated, Upper Palheolithic man hunted big game on the tundra and cold steppe that lay outside it. Then, as the ice-cap diminished, the zone of open country contracted, and first a coniferous forest, followed by a deciduous forest, occupied the temperate latitudes. Oak forests covered the greater part of these regions in late Magdalenian times, causing big game to become scarce and to retreat to such open lands as were left.
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PEAKE, H. The Beginnings and the Early Spread of Agriculture1. Nature 119, 894–896 (1927). https://doi.org/10.1038/119894a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/119894a0