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NCERT Class 6 History Chapter 3: From Gathering to Growing Food
Rise of Farming & Storage
| Grain And Bones | Sites |
| Wheat, Barley, Sheep, Goat, Cattle | Mehrgarh ( In Present day-Pakistan) |
| Rice, Fragmentary Animal Bones | Koldihwa (In Present-day Uttar Pradesh |
| Rice, Cattle (hoof marks on clay surface) | Mahagara (In Present-day Uttar Pradesh) |
| Wheat and lentil | Gufkral (In Present-day Kashmir) |
| Wheat and lentil, dog, cattle, sheep, goat, buffalo, | Burzahom (In present-day Kashmir) |
| Wheat, green gram, barley, buffalo, ox | Chirand (In Present-day Bihar) |
| Millet, cattle, sheep, goat, pig | Hallaur (In Present-day Andhra Pradesh) |
| Black gram, millet, cattle, sheep, pig | Paiyampalli (in present-day Andhra Pradesh) |
| These are just some of the sites from which and bones have been found. | |
To a Settled Life
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Burzahom (Kashmir): Pit-houses - dug into ground, with steps leading into them – protect in cold
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Neolithic Tools: Fine cutting edge – for mortars and pestles to grind grains
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Earthen Pots: Cooking, Storage
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Cloth Weaving: Cotton
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Sedentary Life: Farming & Herding
Customs & Practices
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Lived in groups as Tribes – had leaders
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Women: Agricultural work - prepare ground, sow seeds etc. ; thresh, husk, and grind grain
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Children: Look after plants, drive away animals.
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Men: Led large herds of animals in search of pasture.
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Children: Led small flocks
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Men & Women: Cleaning of animals and milking, making pots, baskets, tools and huts
Mehrgarh
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Near Bolan pass in Iran
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Learnt to grew barley & wheat & rear sheep and goat for 1st time in this area
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Bones of deer, pig, sheep, goat & cattle
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Square & rectangular houses – 4 or more compartments & storage
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Believed in life after death – burial sites –buried with animals
Daojali Hading
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On the hills near Brahmaputra Valley
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Near routes to China and Myanmar
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Stone tools: Mortars and pestles
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Grow grain & prepare food
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Jadeite, stone brought from China
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Tools of fossil wood & pottery
-Manishika