Stone Age

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Who are hunter-gatherers?

Introduction

Where did hunter-gatherers live?

Name the two groups hunter-gatherers originatedfrom.

What did they wear?

What was the age called that they lived in?

Hunter-gatherers are people living a lifestyle in which most or all of their food is obtained by foragingand hunting, in the same way that most natural omnivores do. This way of living is hundreds of thousands of years old. In Southern Africa, hunter-gatherers have been around for approximately 11 000 years.

Hunter-gatherers live in Southern Africa. They live in caves in the winter to keep them warm and grass structures, or in the open, in the summer. The hunter-gatherers are nomadic so they never stay in one place for a long time. They move with the migration patterns of animals, and to find food and water.

The two groups that the hunter-gatherers originated from are called the San and the Khoi. The name San comes from the Khoi-Khoi word Saan, and it translates to people who gather wild food or people without any cattle.

The hunter-gatherers make their clothes from animal skins, which they get from the animals that the men kill andbring back from their hunt. The animal skins are dried in the sun, and beaten to make it soft again. The women cut the skins with sharp stones and sew the skins together using a bone needle, and thread they made from strips of animal skin.

The age that the hunter-gatherers live in is called the Stone Age because a lot of their tools and weapons are made from stone.