LIFE STYLE OF TRIBAL
PEOPLE WHO LIVE IN FOREST THAT CLOSELY RESEMBLES TO THAT OF EARLY HUMANS
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Life style of tribal: Tribes were distinguished from castes on the basis of their religious and ecological conditions. ADVERTISEMENTS: However, tribals are also peasants, as a good number of them today live in villages and have been engaged in agriculture and allied occupations just like peasants belonging to various castes and communities.
People who live in forest closest to early humans :
The idea that early humans spent most of their time in and among trees has been boosted by evidence from a cave site in South Africa. This contradicts the standard view, which envisages early hominids in Africa running about on dry, grassy plains in the heat of the midday sun.
The new picture is emerging from a reconstruction of the environment in the Makapan Valley, northeast of Potgietersrus in northern Transvaal. R. J. Rayner and colleagues of the University of Witwaters-rand say that about 3 million years ago the Makapan area was much wetter and greener than it is today; the valley was shallower, the soil was more fertile and there was no pronounced dry season. The valley had significant patches of subtropical forest and thick bush rather than savannah, say the researchers (Journal of Human Evolution, vol 24, p 219).
In this habitat lived a lightly built or ‘gracile’ australopithecine called Australo-pithecus africanus. Remains of perhaps a dozen individuals have been found in the Limeworks Cave, or Makapansgat. More are known from another Transvaal site called Sterkfontein to the southwest, near Krugersdorp. The Makapansgat deposits are hard to date but australopithecines are thought to be about 3 million years old.
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