FROM HUNTING–GATHERING TO GROWING FOOD
Chapter 21. Computer the sentences:
(a) Hunter gatherers chose to live in caves and rock shelters because ______________.
(b) Grasslands developed around ___________ years ago.
2. Why do people who grow crops have to stay in the same place for to long time?
3. Why do archaeologists think that many people who lived in Mehrgarh were hunters to start with and
that herding became more important later?
4. Why did the hunter-gatherers travel from place to place? In what-ways are these similar to/different from the reasons for which we travel today?
5. List three ways in which hunter-gatherers used fire (see page 14). Would you use fire for any of these purposes today?
6. List three ways in which the lives of farmers and herders would have been different from that of hunter-gatherers.
7. List the cereals that you eat. Do you grow the cereals you eat. If yes, draw a chart to show the stages in growing them. If not, draw a chart to show how these cereals reach you from the farmers who grow them.