In this post, we have a quick NCERT notes for class 6 Social Science History chapter 2 From Hunting-Gathering to Growing Food. This will be helpful in your exams.
| Details | Information |
|---|---|
| Class | 6th |
| Subject | Social Science (History) |
| Chapter | 2: From Hunting-Gathering to Growing Food |
| Medium | English |
| Notes | NCERT |
NCERT Notes Class 6 History Chapter 2 From Hunting-Gathering to Growing Food
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| NCERT Notes Class 6 History Chapter 2 From Hunting-Gathering to Growing Food |
- Hunter-gatherers: Those people hunted wild animals, caught birds, fishes, and gathered fruits, vegetables, seeds, roots, nuts, leaves, and eggs. They moved from one place to another, in shortage of foods, water, and other animal resources.
- Tools: Hunter-gatherers made and used several tools of stone, wood and bone. They were used to cut meat and bone, scrape bark from trees and chop fruit and roots.
- Sites: These are places where we find remains of things, tools, posts, designs, and buildings. These things were made and used by ancient people.
- Bhimbetka: This is one of the oldest sites. This is in Madhya Pradesh in present-day. Archaeologists have found caves and rock shelters (close to the Narmada valley).
- Rock paintings: These early people painted on the walls. Some of the best paintings are from Madhya Pradesh and southern Uttar Pradesh. These show wild animals, hunters, etc.
- Kurnool caves: Archaeologists have found traces of ash here. This suggests that people were familiar with fire. Fire used for many things: to roast meat, as a source of light, and to protect themselves from animals.
- Stone ages: Stone ages are categorized in three periods: Palaeolithic, Mesolithic and Neolithic.
- Palaeolithic period (2 million to 12,000 years ago): Palaeolithic word comes from two Greek words, palaeo (meaning old) and lithos (meaning stone). This age is all about finding stone tools. This period is also categorized into the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic.
- Mesolithic Period (12,000 to 10,000 years ago): In this period, humans find environmental changes. They used newer tiny stone tools, are generally called microliths.
- Neolithic period (from 10,000 to 3,000 years ago): In this period, people began agriculture, animal husbandry, and making villages.
- Domestication: This is a process in which people grow plants and look after animals. This began about 12,000 years ago. They cultivated wheat and barley as earliest plants, and sheep and goat as earliest domesticated animals.
- Burzahom (in present-day Kashmir): Archaeologists have found traces of houses and huts at this site. They have also found cooking hearths inside and outside the huts.
- Mehrgarh: Here, archaeologists have found one of the earliest villages. People learnt to grow barley and wheat, and rear goats and sheep for the first time. Burials sites have been found at this place. In one place, the dead human was buried with goats.
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