Answer the following questions briefly:
1. Write examples of habitation sites.
2. Name the earliest period of history given by archaeologists.
3. How was wood used in the past?
4. Write any two grain bearing grasses.
5. List the foods that the hunter-gatherers ate.
6. What does the rock paintings of Madhya Pradesh and Southern Uttar Pradesh depicts?
7. What tools would you use today for cutting fruit? What would they be made of?
8. How can we say that the people of Kurnool caves were familiar with fire?
9. Why people chose to live in natural caves?
10. What did hunter-gatherers do to sustain themselves?
11. What qualities people need to have while hunting animals or catching fish?
Answers
Answer:
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Explanation:
1.Habitation sites were places where people lived. These include caves and rock shelters. People chose these natural caves because they provided shelter from the rain, heat and wind. E.g. Bhimbetka (in present Madhya Pradesh) ,Chirand (in present Bihar).
2.The Paleolithic is the earliest period of the Stone Age. The early part of the Palaeolithic is called the Lower Palaeolithic, which predates Homo sapiens, beginning with Homo habilis (and related species) and the earliest stone tools, dated to around 2.5 million years ago.
3.Wood has been used for thousands of years for fuel, as a construction material, for making tools and weapons, furniture and paper. More recently it emerged as a feedstock for the production of purified cellulose and its derivatives, such as cellophane and cellulose activity.
4.Rice and Barley are some of the grain bearing grasses.
5.They gather wild seeds, grasses, and nuts; seasonal vegetables; roots and berries. They hunt and fish their own meat.
6.Rock paintings of Madhya Pradesh and Southern Uttar Pradesh depict animals and hunting scenes.
7.Today, for cutting fruit, we would use modem tools like knives, which are made of iron or steel. Hunter-gatherers used fire for purposes like: A source of light.
8.At Kurnool caves in Andhra Pradesh, evidences and traces of ash has been found suggesting the use of fire. Yes, the people in Kurnool caves were familiar with fire.
9.Early humans choose to stay in natural caves because they provided shelter from the rain, heat and wind. Natural caves and rock shelters can be found in the Vindhyas and the Deccan plateau.
10.They hunted wild animals, caught fish and birds, gathered fruits, roots, nuts, seeds, leaves, stalks and eggs, in order to sustain themselves.
11.To hunt animals or catch fish and birds, people need to be alert, quick, and have lots of presence of mind.