Important Questions Test: From Gathering to Growing Food

Although bronze, and later iron, became the preferred material for weapons and tools, copper found wide uses in such wares as cooking vessels, household utensils, mirrors, and ornaments. Although unsuited for casting, copper is malleable and readily worked by hammering, chasing, engraving, and cold-rolling. Thus, chalocolithic also called as copper age.

Neolithic, also called New Stone Age, final stage of cultural evolution or technological development among prehistoric humans. It was characterized by stone tools shaped by polishing or grinding, dependence on domesticated plants or animals, settlement in permanent villages, and the appearance of such crafts as pottery and weaving. The Neolithic followed the Paleolithic Period, or age of chipped-stone tools, and preceded the Bronze Age, or early period of metal tools.

People started using earthen pots for cooking food such as rice, wheat and lentils, as these had become an important part of the diet.

Goats were probably the first animals to be domesticated, followed closely by sheep. In Southeast Asia, chickens also were domesticated about 10,000 years ago. Later, people began domesticating larger animals, such as oxen or horses, for plowing and transportation.

Mehrgarh is a large Neolithic and Chalcolithic site located at the foot of the Bolan pass on the Kachi plain of Baluchistan (also spelled Balochistan), in modern day Pakistan.

Black gram and millets were the Crops which were cultivated in Paiyampalli (andhra pradesh).

-Some breeds of Sheep are used specifically for meat, others for milk and some breeds are used to produce both wool and meat 

-Farmers in the past used to rely on their bullocks for ploughing paddy fields. Oxen are also used for Bullock carts for transports of goods & for transportation of people from one place to other. Before the advent of machinery traditional ploughing of farms was done using iron ploughs and ox .

-Pork is the culinary name for the meat of a domestic pig. It is the most commonly consumed meat worldwide, with evidence of pig husbandry dating back to 5000 BC. Pork is eaten both freshly cooked and preserved.

Mesolithic, also called Middle Stone Age, ancient cultural stage that existed between the Paleolithic (Old Stone Age), with its chipped stone tools, and the Neolithic (New Stone Age), with its polished stone.

Koldihwa is an archaeological site in Uttar Pradesh, India. It is situated in the valleys of Belan River near village Devghat. Along with Mahagara, it is one of the few Neolithic sites in Uttar Pradesh. Both are in district Prayagraj. Also, Koldihwa and Mahagara, both are on the opposite banks of Belan River.

Hallur is an archaeological site located in the Haveri district (which was carved out of Dharwad district), in the Indian state of Karnataka.

Daojali Hading is an important Neolithic site in Dima Hasao District of Assam, India on a low hillock about 1000 feet above sea level, near Brahmaputra valley close to routes leading into China and Myanmar.

As a matter of fact, copper was the first metal that man discovered in 9000 BCE. The other metals used in pre-historic times were gold, silver, tin, lead, and iron.

Agriculture is the cultivation of land and breeding of animals and plants to provide food, fiber, medicinal plants and other products to sustain and enhance life. Agriculture was the key development in the rise of sedentary human civilization, whereby farming of domesticated species created food surpluses that enabled people to live in cities. 

Any culture of the Paleolithic or Neolithic (and especially the Mesolithic in Europe) epochs would have used microliths. We see lithic technology as primative, but creating stone tools is not easy. It is definitely an art and a science, and some stone tools are beautiful.

The Upper Paleolithic has the earliest known evidence of organized settlements, in the form of campsites, some with storage pits.

A barter system is an old method of exchange. Th is system has been used for centuries and long before money was invented. People exchanged services and goods for other services and goods in return.

Mastodons, saber-toothed cats, giant ground sloths and other megafauna roamed. Stone Age humans hunted large mammals, including wooly mammoths, giant bison and deer.

The Chalcolithic period refers to that part of Old World prehistory wedged between the first farming societies called Neolithic, and the urban and literate societies of the Bronze Age. In Greek, Chalcolithic means "copper age" (more or less), and indeed, the Chalcolithic period is generally--but not always--associated with wide-spread copper metallurgy. Hence the correct answer is option D.

Because they were food gatherer not food-producers. They did not have large quantity of grains as a produce from agriculture. They did not require any pot or basket to store grains.

The process in which people grow plants and look after animals is called Domestication. It was a gradual process that took place in many parts of the world about 12,000 years ago. Some of the earliest plants to be grown were wheat and barley.