Hunter Gatherers

Question 1

Who were the first people to

Live in South Africa

Answer 1

The San

Question 2

What did San men do?

Answer 2

Hunt for meat

Question 3

What did San women do?

Answer 3

Gather plants for food

Question 4

When did the Khoikhoi arrive?

Answer 4

About 2000 years ago

Question 5

How did the Khoikhoi live?

Answer 5

They herded capital and kept sheep and goats

Question 6

How do we know about the San and Khoikhoi?

Answer 6

Stories they told
Objects they made
Rock art they painted
Reading books which were written about them
Observing the lives of those who live in a similar way

Question 7

Do the San and Khoikhoi still live the way they used to?

Answer 7

No, they lost the land and so have had to change their way of life

Question 8

Observing people who l8ve in a si,solar way to the way people loved long ago is called?

Answer 8

Ethnography

Question 9

What did the San make tools out of?

Answer 9

Stone

Question 10

What is the Stone Age

Answer 10

The time in history when people made tools out of stone

Question 11

What did stone age San live off?

Answer 11

The environment

Question 12

What are the San called and why?

Answer 12

Hunter - gatherers

Question 13

How did the San find water in dry seasons?

Answer 13

The women would dig in the sand to find water. They also scraped and squeezed roots for moisture. Theybstored the water in ostrich eggs and plugged the hole with grass or clay

Question 14

What characterised the San?

Answer 14

They got their food from the environment
They didn’t grow food or keep animals
They did very little damage to the environment
Made tools from stone and bone

Question 15

How did the San live

Answer 15

They lived in small gr0ups and were nomadic

Question 16

What does nomadic mean?

Answer 16

They m9ved in search of food and didn’t settle down

Question 17

What did the San use for medicine

Answer 17

Plants

Question 18

Name plants that San women would collect

Answer 18

Hoodia - it is bitter and stops hunger and thirst

Buchu- cures stomach aches

Bushmans poison - poisons their arrows

Sickle bush - used for snake bites. The bark can also be used for headaches and toothache

Question 19

What weapon did the San use?

Answer 19

Bow and arrow

Question 20

What was the bow and arrow made from

Answer 20

Bow - tough elastic branch
Bow string - rolled strips from back muscles of gemsbok
Arrow was made from stone or bone. Poison was put on behind the point so the Hunter couldn’t get poisoned if he was scratched by the arrow

Question 21

How did the San hunt?

Answer 21

The San tracked their game. They had a good sense of direction and an understanding of their environment. They would follow a herd for days until they got close enough to shoot one. The poison entered the bloodstream and slowly paralysed it.
The hunters would follow until the prey fell. The place where the arrow stuck was it put and thrown away. The rest of the meat could be eaten

The San used spears to finally kills the animal.

They used sharp stone tools to skin It and cut up the meat

Question 22

What was the name of the San god?

Answer 22

Kaggen

Question 23

What was Kaggen

Answer 23

Their god who could take the form of an event. He was the creator of all. To meet with Kaggen the San performed a trance dance

A San shaman would enter the spirit world through a trance to get the power of Kaggen to protect and heal

Question 24

What is San rock art?

Answer 24

Paintings on rocks depicting the shamans experiences