Trekking a curious path via Wikipedia, or: Wikichain.

[Gleb Gamow]

Finally this resulted in Stewart being rounded up and deported from Spain for vagrancy during 1963.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vagrancy_(people)


John Everett Millais "The Blind Girl", depicting vagrant musicians

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[Gleb Gamow]

In Tudor England, some of those who begged door-to-door for "milk, yeast, drink, pottage" were thought to be witches.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pottage


An example of pottage.

[Gleb Gamow]

It was a staple food from neolithic times to the Middle Ages.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neolithic


Reconstruction of Neolithic house in Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina

[benawesome100]

I dont get it. it is so much to read and do i can not be stuffed. Sorry :|

[Gleb Gamow]

I dont get it. it is so much to read and do i can not be stuffed. Sorry :|

Yeah, I guess some folks can get overwhelmed by knowledge.

Early Neolithic farming was limited to a narrow range of plants, both wild and domesticated, which included einkorn wheat, millet and spelt, and the keeping of dogs, sheep and goats.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goat#History


Goat husbandry is common through the Norte Chico region in Chile. Intensive goat husbrandry in drylands may produce severe erosion and desertification. Image from upper Limarí River

[Omikifuse]

"Goats are among the earliest animals domesticated by humans.[5] The most recent genetic analysis[6] confirms the archaeological evidence that the wild Bezoar ibex of the Zagros Mountains are the likely origin of almost all domestic goats today.[5]"

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros_Mountains

[Gleb Gamow]

The most recent genetic analysis confirms the archaeological evidence that the wild Bezoar ibex of the Zagros Mountains are the likely origin of almost all domestic goats today.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zagros_Mountains


Oshtoran Kooh Mountain

[Gleb Gamow]

The ancestors of many familiar foods, including wheat, barley, lentil, almond, walnut, pistachio, apricot, plum, pomegranate and grape can be found growing wild throughout the mountains.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomegranate


Girl with a pomegranate, by William-Adolphe Bouguereau, 1875

[Gleb Gamow]

It is also extensively grown in South China and in Southeast Asia, whether originally spread along the route of the Silk Road or brought by sea traders.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silk_Road


A late Zhou or early Han Chinese bronze mirror inlaid with glass, perhaps incorporated Greco-Roman artistic patterns

[Gleb Gamow]

In addition, the vast grassland steppes of Asia provided fertile grazing, water, and easy passage for caravans, enabling merchants to travel immense distances, from the shores of the Pacific to Africa and deep into Europe, without trespassing on agricultural lands and arousing hostility.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caravan_(travellers)


Edwin Lord Weeks, Arrival of a Caravan Outside the City of Morocco

[Gleb Gamow]

An example are the camel trains traversing the southern edges of the Sahara Desert.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camel_train


A modern sculptor's depiction of (the head of) a caravan approaching Beijing, complete with a camel-puller and a mounted caravan master, head cook, or xiansheng riding next to him. In the deserts of Mongolia, one would not see a dignitary in a sedan chair travelling along, nor would a baby camel accompany its mother.

[Gleb Gamow]

Once the camel-puller got rich enough to own close to a full file of 18 camels, he could join the caravan not as an employee but as a kind of a partner - now instead of earning wages he would be paying money (around 20 taels per round-trip in 1926) to the owner of (the rest of) the caravan for the benefit of joining the caravan, sharing in the food, etc.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tael


Japanese Edo era tael sycees. In descending size, 30, 20, 10, 5, 4, 3, and 2 tael sycees.

[Gleb Gamow]

Traditional Chinese silver sycees and other currencies of fine metals were not denominated or made by a central mint and their value was determined by their weight in taels.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mint_(coin)


French-made coining press from 1831 (M.A.N., Madrid).

[Gleb Gamow]

These were the first truly modern coins; - the mass-production of coinage with steam driven machinery organised in factories, enabled the achievement of standardized dimensions and uniform weight and roundness, something no counterfeiter of the day could hope to achieve.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factory_system


New Lanark mill

[Gleb Gamow]

Other products such as nails had long been produced in factory workshops, increasingly diversified using the division of labour to increase the efficiency of the system.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nail_(fastener)


The Iron Roland of Mannheim (1915)

[Gleb Gamow]

Once nails became cheap and widely available, they were often used in folk art and outsider art as a method of decorating a surface with metallic studs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folk_art


Darrel Mortimer holding 8' tattooed bamboo chillum; photograph by Sally Larsen, 2009

[Gleb Gamow]

For example, Pablo Picasso was inspired by African tribal sculptures and masks, while Natalia Goncharova and others were inspired by traditional Russian popular prints called luboks.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lubok


A scuffle of Baba Yaga (riding a pig) with the Crocodile.

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Wolves, horses, reindeer and other animals are considered to be the ‘helping animals’ to the sorcerers in the woodcuts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gray_wolf


Gray wolf marking its territory with urine

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It has a long history of association with humans, having been despised and hunted in most pastoral communities due to its attacks on livestock, while conversely being respected in some agrarian and hunter-gatherer societies.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoralism


Khoikhoi dismantling their huts, preparing to move to new pastures. Aquatint by Samuel Daniell (1805). The Khoikhoi practiced pastoralism for thousands of years in southern Africa.

[Gleb Gamow]

Grazing herds on savannas can ensure the biodiversity of the savannas and prevent them from evolving into scrubland.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shrubland


Moorland on Kilimanjaro