See also: Shepherd (homonymy), Shepherdess
A shepherd (a shepherdess ) is a person charged to guide and take care of the herds of Mouton S (when there is no possessive phrase, he always acts of herds with sheep), or by extension of Bétail (ex: shepherd of cow), in the meadows or the mountainous areas; it is often helped by a Sheepdog. The word comes from Latin berbex , ewe.
Description
It is about one of the oldest professions of planet, the first shepherds having appeared there is approximately 10.000 years in minor Asia (see Domestication). The sheep were high for their Lait, them Viande, them Cuir and especially for their Laine. During the next millenium, the sheep and the art of the shepherd (pastoralism, Transhumance) were spread through the Europe and the Asia.In art and the iconography, the shepherd or the shepherdess is very often represented with their traditional attribute, the crook which is a canes specific, but one also speaks about the shepherd's crook.
The shepherds were established durably only in certain areas: in the basic zones altitude or the river valleys, it was much more advantageous to cultivate Blé and others Céréale S rather than to let feed the herds (see myth of Caïn and Abel): the breeding of the sheep was confined then primarily at the broken and mountainous zones. At the time pre-modern, the practice of the shepherd met thus in areas such as the Palestine, the Greece, the the Pyrenees or the Scotland. The country which has the most sheep in the world is the China.
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