Answer the following questions in brief:
(a) What is meant by farmers and herders?
(6) When did the Mesolithic Age begin?
(c) What major changes occurred in the Mesolithic Age?
(d) When did the Neolithic Age begin?
(e) Which animals did the Mesolithic man domesticate?
(f) What were storing animals?
(g) How is burnt grain an important information giver?
List three major characteristics of the Neolithic Age.
(i) Name the Neolithic sites in India.
6) Write briefly about the tools of the Neolithic Age.
11oring quastione in detail.
Answers
Explanation:
the Neolithic sites of India are-gufkral, burzahom, chirand, pikilihal, brahmagiri, makshi, halur, takkalakota, T. narsipur, kodekal, sangallakalu
Answer:
a)Herders tend herds of animals but they do not remain at a fixed location all the time. Instead, they migrate seasonally in search of pasture and water for their animals. Farmers are such people whose main occupation is the growing of crops and the rearing of animals but who remain in a fixed location all the time.
b)about 8000 bce
c)Of the important discoveries made in the Mesolithic and New Stone Age, the most far-reaching were new ways of getting food. In addition to hunting and gathering, man learned to tame animals so that they would be near when he needed meat. Man learned to tame such animals as sheep, goats, pigs, and cattle.
d)10,000 B.C.
e)Livestock: The first livestock were domesticated from animals that Neolithic humans hunted for meat. ... The first farm animals also included sheep and cattle. These originated in Mesopotamia between 10,000 and 13,000 years ago. Water buffalo and yak were domesticated shortly after in China, India and Tibet.
f)Mammals that store food include some pradators, pikas and many rodents. The animals use their reserves in winter or in the spring after they aweken from hibernation or winter sleep.