Question Statement: How did human beings start to live a settled life? Describe the evidence of early agriculture.
Instructions:
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Describe how human beings started to stay at one place to take care of plants and animals.
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Increase in harvest created a necessity to build storage and other objects
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Remains of cultivation found at various places dated thousand of years ago.
Solution:
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Human beings began to cultivate their own food and herding animals.
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People started to stay at one place for a longer period of time to protect the plants and provide them water.
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As the people started to depend primarily on agriculture the amount of grains collected from the harvest increased.
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This generated a need to build storage and thus humans started to build huts that were made up of stone, wood, mud and dried grass.
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They needed vessels in order to store grains and dairy products and thus started making different kinds of pots.
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These pots and vessels were painted in order to decorate them.
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Grains were roasted in order to preserve them for a longer period of time.
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New types of tools were formed by grinding stones on rock to give it a sharp edge.
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These sharp edged stones were attached to a handle in order to form an axe-like tool.
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These tools were called ‘neoliths’ and were used for clearing the forest in order to practice agriculture.
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Early evidence of agriculture was in Baluchistan dated 9000 years ago. In India evidence is found in Kashmir from 5000 years ago and in Bihar from 4000 years ago.
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As evidence for domestication, large mounds of ashes are found from the border Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
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It is believed that these ash mounds were formed from burning cow dung.
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Other evidence like neoliths, handmade pots, etc were also found in excavations.
Instructions:
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Describe how human beings started to stay at one place to take care of plants and animals.
-
Increase in harvest created a necessity to build storage and other objects
-
Remains of cultivation found at various places dated thousand of years ago.
Solution:
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Human beings began to cultivate their own food and herding animals.
-
People started to stay at one place for a longer period of time to protect the plants and provide them water.
-
As the people started to depend primarily on agriculture the amount of grains collected from the harvest increased.
-
This generated a need to build storage and thus humans started to build huts that were made up of stone, wood, mud and dried grass.
-
They needed vessels in order to store grains and dairy products and thus started making different kinds of pots.
-
These pots and vessels were painted in order to decorate them.
-
Grains were roasted in order to preserve them for a longer period of time.
-
New types of tools were formed by grinding stones on rock to give it a sharp edge.
-
These sharp edged stones were attached to a handle in order to form an axe-like tool.
-
These tools were called ‘neoliths’ and were used for clearing the forest in order to practice agriculture.
-
Early evidence of agriculture was in Baluchistan dated 9000 years ago. In India evidence is found in Kashmir from 5000 years ago and in Bihar from 4000 years ago.
-
As evidence for domestication, large mounds of ashes are found from the border Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.
-
It is believed that these ash mounds were formed from burning cow dung.
-
Other evidence like neoliths, handmade pots, etc were also found in excavations.
