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NCERT Class 6 History Chapter 2: On the Trail of the Earliest People
Earliest People
- Hunters: Alert, Quick, Presence of mind (animals used to run fast)
- Gatherers: Collect plant parts, know when fruits ripe
- They moved?
- Resources will be exhausted at one place
- Hunters moved with animals
- Plants are seasonal so gatherers moved
- Water sources some were perennial, others seasonal
- Meet friends and relatives
How We Know About Earliest People?
- Tools they used: Stone, wood, bone
- To cut meat and bone
- To scrape bark (from trees) and hides (animal skins)
- To chop fruit and roots
- Wood to make huts and tools
Making Stone Tools
- Stone-on-Stone: One stone used as hammer on another
- Pressure Flaking: Core placed on firm surface and hammer stone used to remove flakes
Fire
- To light
- To cook
- To fear away animals
Hunting to Rearing
- 12,000 years ago – Climate change – shift to warm climate & development of grasslands
- Increase in rearing animals
- Learnt about food habit and breeding season of animals
- Grow crops like wheat & barley – till now grown naturally
Period of Stone Age
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