From Hunting Gathering to Growing Food

People lived on the Indian Subcontinent about (a)   million years ago

People who loved on the Indian subcontinent 2 million years ago are described as (a)  

How did hunter-gatherers get their food?

• steel traps
• hunting animals and gathering fruits and nuts
• farming
• the grocery store

Which term BEST describes the lifestyle of hunter-gatherers?

• isolated
• nomadic
• reliable
• effortless

What are nomads?

• early humans who only ate meat

• early humans who moved from place to place

• early humans who looked like apes

• people who live in the desert

Hunter-Gatherer

• A member of a culture in which people hunt animals and look for plants to eat instead of growing crops and raising animals.
• A member of a group of people who move from place to place instead of living in one place all the time, usually to find food or follow animal herds.
• Humans domesticated plants and animals in this period which changed the way of life of communities which made the change.
• Art work made in prehistoric times. Most date from 10,000 to 20,000 years ago. The oldest are from about 32,000 years ago. Most archaeologists think they may have had a function for rituals.

Archaeology is the study of __________?

• Africans
• African Americans
• Human life in the past.
• Human life in the Future

Generally, they hunted wild animals, caught fish and birds, gathered fruits, roots, nuts, seeds, leaves, stalks and eggs.

• True

• False

Paleolithic people moved from place to place in search of food. This is why they were called....

• nomads

• famers

• immigrants

• settlers

Why did early humans migrate around the world?

• They wanted to travel
• They were tired of the same places
• There were not enough animals to hunt or food to gather
• There was not enough good schools