From Gathering to Growing Food

The first animal to be tamed by our ancestors was the

• wild ancestor of the dog

• wild ancestor of the cat

As our ancestors planted seeds it meant that they had to

• stay in one place for a long time and learn how to store food.

• move from one place to another till the seed became a plant.

In this place , people built pit houses which were dug into the ground with steps leading into them

• Burzahom

• Bhimbetka

People learnt to grow barley and wheat and rear sheep and goats for the first time in what is now Pakistan. Which site are we talking about?

• Burzahom

• Mehrgarh

Daojali Hading is a site on the hills near this river.

• Ganga

• Bramhaputra

Farmers bacame

• Herders

• Early man

Ashes were found in

• Kurnool

• Bhimbetka

Grains were used for

• Food

• Burning

The chapter is about

• Neoloithic age or new stone age

• Paleolothic age

Earlier people used to travel before becoming farmers

• True

• False