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• Archaeological Sites
• source of food, and meat, whenever
• ones
• part of
• routes into
• later?
• DATES
• to preserve old buildings?

Essential Definitions & Formulas

Water

found in lakes, streams and rivers.

It

likely that people made and used tools of stone, wood and bone, of which stone tools have survived best.

This

an old site with caves and rock shelters.

This long stretch of time

divided into the Lower, Middle and Upper Palaeolithic.

It

likely that this helped people to start thinking about herding and rearing these animals themselves.

This

how they became herders.

DomesticationDomestication DomesticationDomestication Domestication

the name given to the process in which people grow plants and look after animals.

This

because people select plants and animals for domestication.

Virtually all the plant and animal produce that we use as food today

a result of domestication.

Many of these are different from the earlier Palaeolithic tools and that

why they are called Neolithic.

This site

located in a fertile plain, near the Bolan Pass, which is one of the most important routes into Iran.

It

one of the earliest villages that we know about.

This

what a house in Mehrgarh may have looked like.

In what way s

this house similar to the one in which you live? 2020-21 © NCERT not to be republished 21 n them, perhaps in the belief that there is some form of life after death.

Burial

one such arrangement.

The painting below

from a cave in France.

It

possible that these paintings were done on ceremonial occasions.

Your uncle

painting one of the inner walls of the cave and you want to help him.

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