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F. Answer the questions in detail :
1. How did the Early Man start farming and herding? How did these change his life?
2 How did the invention of the wheel take place? How did it help man?
3. Why did people make pots? How were they made?
4. What type of settled life did man start to live now?
5. Write short note on the religious practices of the Neolithic people.

6. Why did people begin to settle near rivers or valleys?

1. How can you say that settled life is more comfortable and secure than the nomadic life?
2. Why is it important to know the history of civilisation that existed nearly 8,000 years ago?

Mehrgarh– A Neolithic Site
The earliest evidence of food production in the Indian subcontinent has found from the Neolithic site at
Mehrgarh located in the Kacchi Plain the Sind-Balochistan border (present day
Pakistan). It is near the Bolan River Valley, near the Bolan Pass. Bolan valley was an
important link between the Indian plains and the mountains of Balochistan. This site
was discovered by Jean-Francois Jarrige and his team. The team excavated the site
several times between 1974 to 1986. There are evidences of mud houses, granaries
to store food, domestication of animals and cultivation of wheat and barley. Bones
of animals (goat) and charred grains have also been found along with terracota Mehrgarh site
figurines decorated with ornaments.

First Farmers and Herders
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