Field work
Look at your own city, town or village. Draw a sketch map of a selected area using the methods you had learnt earlier. Your map should show the following: Roads, Houses, Shops and markets, Streams and drains, some Public places like hospitals, schools, bus stand, railway station etc;Are the public places located at points that would be convenient to most people?
Do you find any patterns in the location of markets?
Talk to people in the selected area and find out the changes in the settlement during the past twenty years and the reasons for this. What amenities should have been provided for, but have not been done?
For about 1.8 lakh years, Early humans lived in bands as hunter-gatherers. They did not practice agriculture. However owing to changes in ways of obtaining food, some bands took to the deliberate method of production of food - agriculture.
As agriculturalists, they were increasingly sedentary (staying in one place).
Fig 7. 2 : A rockshelter used by early humans at Bhimbetka, Madhya Pradesh. Read the Chapter on hunter gathers from class VI for details
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| Nomadic life style | Sedentary life style | |
|---|---|---|