Indigenous Habitants Of The Cape Flashcards
What is a hunter-gatherer?
A person who hunts for meat or collects plant food, like roots.
What are rock paintings?
Pictures painted on to rocks by the San.
What are engravings?
Pictures scratched on to rocks by the San.
Who were the indigenous of the Cape?
The San hunter-gatherers and the Khoi herders.
Who were the first people to live at the Cape?
Hunter-gatherers
How did the San get their food?
By hunting animals, and gathering plant foods like fruits, nuts, berries and roots from the environment.
Hunter-gatherers lived in ____ groups.
Small
True or false
The San were nomadic and did not settle in one place.
True
The San moved around to find different plant foods at different times of the ____.
Year
True or false
The San lived for many thousands of years, hunter-gatherers lived all over Southern Africa.
True
How do we know the San lived around Southern Africa and they lived for thousands of years?
Because of their rock paintings and engravings that were found all over Southern Africa.
When the Dutch colonized the Cape in the late 17th Century there were San hunter-gatherers living at the Cape and in the rest of ____ Africa.
Southern
About ____ years ago, wild sheep, cattle and goats were ___ and ___ to be kept to provide milk and meat.
8000
Tamed
Bred
What are herders?
Herders are pastoralists who keep animals that are useful to them.
What were cattle used for?
For their meat and hide and cows for their milk.
When did the Khoikhoi begin moving into the South-Western parts of Southern Africa?
About 2000 years ago.
What did they have herds of?
Herds of hairy, fat-tailed sheep.
When did the Khoikhoi settle in Cape?(Season Wise)
During the winter rainfall when there was good grazing for their sheep.
What did the Khoi begin to keep by the 17th century?
Cattle, Goats and sometimes dogs.
What is livestock?
Domestic animals such as cattle and sheep.
The Khoikhoi groups were ___ than the San groups and they moved around to find the best ___ for their livestock.
Larger
Grazing
What did the Khoikhoi live in?
Reed houses that they could take with them when they moved to another place.
How do we know where herders lived?
We know where they lived because archaeologists have found remains of herder camps in these areas.
