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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

Illustration: Period of Stone Age

Site Location

Illustration: Site Location

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