Das Rehblatten/ Appeau pour chevreuils / De Jagd op Reeen /Deer stalking

Title

Das Rehblatten/ Appeau pour chevreuils / De Jagd op Reeen /Deer stalking

Description

Representation of deer hunting

ca. 1840

Artist

Scholz (1793-)

Josef Scholz invented his company in 1793 in Wiesbaden. The trading company of paper and stanionary turned out to a very famous publishing company. 1829 the company moved to Mainz and became very famous in publishing Lithographies for different study purpose.

Historical Description

Hunting is one of the most primitive activities in human history and is older than anatomically modern humans themselves. The oldest undisputed archaeological evidence for hunting dates from the Old Pleistocene and coincides with the emergence and spread of Homo erectus about 1.7 million years ago. Hunting enabled significant steps in human evolution through the associated need for specialization, division of labor, and advance planning among hunters, such as in the production of tools and hunting weapons. Jointly conducted hunting promoted social and communicative skills and formed one of the foundations of human culture. With the spread of sedentarization of man in the course of the Neolithic Revolution and the beginning of agriculture and animal husbandry, hunting became of secondary importance as a source of nutrition for large parts of the population. At the same time, the changed living conditions in the protection of cultivated land from game damage and the control of predators to protect livestock also resulted in new uses for hunting. In the course of time the most different kinds of hunting have developed, which are adapted to special situations or the hunting of certain animal species. There are several ways to systematize at least some of the hunting types. One of the most common classifications distinguishes according to the number of hunters involved, especially in individual and social hunting.