From hunting-gathering to growing food

Discovery of fire.
Advantages.

Rock paintings what do they tell us

.who did that?

how do we know about them?Various

sources Group 4- Where did they live and why
those places were chosen

Reasons to move from place to place

Making of stone tools-purpose
Choosing a place to live in
(Selection of place)
How do we know about these Usage of stone tools
people? ● To cut meat and bone
● Scrape bark from trees and hide (animal
skin)
https://youtu.be/ehV-MmuvVMU ● Chop fruit and roots
● Chop wood to be used as firewood
● Digging the ground to to collect edible
roots
● Stitching clothes made out of animal skin
Some tools may have been attached to to
handles of bone or wood, to make spears and
arrows for hunting.

Archaeologists have found tools

made of stone, bones and wood
probably used by these people. https://naturalhistory2.si.edu/vt3/NMNH-
WC/z_NMNH-WC-001.html
How did they make stone tools?
Choosing a place to live in: Where?
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/feb/07/oldest-human-footprints-happisburgh-
norfolk

Early humans lived in

caves and rock shelters.

Near the sources of water

such as lakes, and rivers.

Places where good quality

stones were available to
make stone tools.
 Sites are places
All The Places
where remains
Marked With Red
of things like
Triangles Are
tools pots
Sites From
Building etc.
Which
were found.
Archaeologists
these were
have found
made,were
evidence of
used and left
hunter-gatherers
Behind by
in India.
people.These
may be found
on the surface
of the earth,
buried under the
earth, or
sometimes even
under water
 Bhimbetka Rock shelter in Madhya Pradesh-INDIA

The Rock Shelters of Bhimbetka, a recognized world heritage site by UNESCO, are in the foothills
of the Vindhyan Mountains on the southern edge of the central Indian plateau in the State of
Madhya Pradesh. Bhimbetka is also known as Bhima's Lounge (Bhima was the second of the five
Pandava princes in the Hindu epic Mahabharata).

Most of the paintings here are in red and white with occasional dashes of yellow and green, with
themes culled from events in everyday life, thousands of years ago. The scenes depicted are mainly
of dancing, playing music, hunting, horse and elephant riding, decorating bodies, and collecting
honey. Household scenes too constitute an occasional theme. Animals like tigers, lions, wild boar,
elephants, dogs and crocodiles have also been portrayed in the paintings. The walls of these shelters
are also adorned with religious symbols that were popular with these pre-historic artists.

https://embed.culturalspot.org/embed/exhibit/VQJSwtSgp-yFJQ?position=3%3A0
 Making of Fire:
ORIGIN:
Now, however, an international team of
archaeologists has unearthed what appear
to be traces of campfires that flickered 1
million years ago. ... Other groups of
researchers armed with remains from
Africa, Asia and Europe have also claimed
that human fire control originated very
early—up to 1.5 million years ago.
The early humans of 2 million years ago
did not have fire making skills, so they
waited until they found something burning
from a natural cause to get fire. A nighty
campfire became routine . people would
collect around the fire each night to share
stories of the days hunt and activities.
Latter they used pieces of stones to make
fire by banging them together or rubbed
two sticks together to induce fire.
https://vimeo.com/272949440 OLD STONE AGE OR PALAEOLITHIC AGE
MIDDLE STONE AGE_A
TRANSITION PERIOD