ABSTRACT
The primitive agriculturalists had to live in permanent settlements, while the herdsmen would be usually nomadic, wandering with their flocks over the prairies, tundras, and feeding-grounds in search of fresh pasturage. The primitive farmers tended to get together in small settlements for mutual support, and the nomadic herdsmen also frequently combined in groups of a similar size. As regards numbers and the complexity of group organisation we may call this the age of the ‘village gang.’ In communities, just as in individuals, it is possible for the conscious mind to lose its connections with the unconscious, and for instinct and emotion to be either repressed and driven underground or to be exploited in ways for which they are not fitted. Food being the main preoccupation of the gang the boys would be taught, one may presume, to hunt and to kill while the girls attended to the roots and fruit, besides lending a hand with the younger children.
