CHAPTER 1 WHAT, WHERE, HOW AND WHEN?
Rasheeda’s question Rasheeda sat reading the newspaper. Suddenly, her eyes fell on a small headline: “One Hundred Years Ago.” How, she wondered, could anyone know what had happened so many years ago?
Finding out what happened Yesterday: you could listen to the radio, watch television, read a newspaper. Last year: ask somebody who remembers. But what about long, long ago? Let us see how it can be done.
What can we know about the past? There are several things we can find out — what people ate, the kinds of clothes they wore, the houses in which they lived. We can find out about the lives of hunters, herders, farmers, rulers, merchants, priests, crafts persons, artists, musicians, and scientists. We can also find out about the games children played, the stories they heard, the plays they saw, the songs they sang.
Where did people live? Find the river Narmada on Map 1 (page 2). People have lived along the banks of this river for several hundred thousand years. Some of the earliest people who lived here were skilled gatherers, — that is, people who gathered their food. They knew about the vast wealth of plants in the surrounding forests, and collected roots, fruits and other forest produce for their food. They also hunted animals.
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there are various ways by which people can know about the past.
1 Excavating and studying the remains left by the early man in the form of tools,weapons,pottery,jewellery etc
2 after man had learned the art of writing,the bark of trees and even an hand material we had been able to read and understand the scripts. some have to be deciphered yet
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