Man on the Rim

Changing the Menu (1x5)

Air date: Jan 01, 1989

More than ten thousand years ago in Southeast Asia an extraordinary discovery was made - how to control animals and plants. The beginnings of domestication ushered in a total change in the way that humans live. We explore the various plants and animals that were tamed and farmed - chickens and rice, mangoes and elephants, cattle and coconuts - and what these things meant to the new societies they created.