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Human perceptions of the environment, and attitudes towards it, have evolved as an integral part of the long history of human interactions with the rest of nature. Hunter/gatherer cultures revealed some of their perceptions in dramatic cave and rock-shelter paintings and carvings in regions as far apart as Australia and Western Europe. The development of cultivation and livestock husbandry in various parts of the world about 10,000 years ago allowed people to exchange the uncertainties of hunting and wandering for the routines of settlement, but it also brought new kinds of impact on the environment, and greatly changed human relationships with it. Settled peoples developed skills in pottery, building and in the mining of ores and the smelting of metals. Historical records indicate that such activities took place some 7,000 years ago in Egypt, Iran and Thailand.
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Tolba, M.K., El-Kholy, O.A. (1992). Perceptions and attitudes. In: Tolba, M.K., El-Kholy, O.A. (eds) The World Environment 1972–1992. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-2280-1_21
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