Hunter Gatherers -GRADE 5 - SOCIAL SCIENCES (CAPS) HISTORY
The FIRST people in South Africa
San - Hunter Gatherers
1. GOT food from environment The San lived off the environment ( called HUNTER- GATHERERS)
2. DID NOT grow crops or keep animals
San could not write - Historians found out
3. Did VERY LITTLE to damage the - Made tools out of stone ( during STONE AGE )
about the way they live
environment
In other ways
4. Made TOOLS from stone and bone
1. STORIES they told Collecting Food ( WOMAN )
2. Study the OBJECTS they made
3. Study the ROCK ART they painted - Gather in GROUPS
San = NOMADIC = moved around - DID NOT settle in ONE
4. READING books that have been written - Use DIGGING STICKS ( men make )
place
about them in modern times - Dig up ROOTS / Gathered HONEY / PLANT food ( nuts,
- SMALL groups/families
5. OBSERVING lives - those that live in fruits)
- FEW belongings
similar way today - Take CONTAINERS to carry food
- SHARED what they had ( NO jealousy or inequality )
- Carry CHILDREN - fed with breastmilk until 4 years old
- Take children everywhere
Collecting Food ( MEN )
BELIEFS Hunter Gatherers
- Religious beliefs - god = /KAGGEN and Herders -HUNT wild animals= meat
Stored water in
SAN AND KHOIKHOI
ostrich egg shells -
BELIEVED : hole sealed = grass
1. Creator of all things DRY SEASONS- water was hard to find /clay
2. Could turn into an eland
3. To meet with /kaggen = trance dance at night - 1.Woman dug HOLES IN SAND to find water
around fire 2.Scraped and Squeezed Roots for moisture
-SHAMAN - the man/woman = entered the
Trance ( helped enter spirit world )
-The Shaman was given the power of Some live in the deserts of Southern Africa TODAY
/kaggen to protect and heal everyone
SAN AND Khoikhoi NO LONGER live like they used to
4. Experiences of Shaman was painted on rocks
= lost their land and forced to change their way of life
The hunt and the BOW and ARROW
The FIRST people in South Africa
San - Hunter Gatherers
1. GOT food from environment The San lived off the environment ( called HUNTER- GATHERERS)
2. DID NOT grow crops or keep animals
San could not write - Historians found out
3. Did VERY LITTLE to damage the - Made tools out of stone ( during STONE AGE )
about the way they live
environment
In other ways
4. Made TOOLS from stone and bone
1. STORIES they told Collecting Food ( WOMAN )
2. Study the OBJECTS they made
3. Study the ROCK ART they painted - Gather in GROUPS
San = NOMADIC = moved around - DID NOT settle in ONE
4. READING books that have been written - Use DIGGING STICKS ( men make )
place
about them in modern times - Dig up ROOTS / Gathered HONEY / PLANT food ( nuts,
- SMALL groups/families
5. OBSERVING lives - those that live in fruits)
- FEW belongings
similar way today - Take CONTAINERS to carry food
- SHARED what they had ( NO jealousy or inequality )
- Carry CHILDREN - fed with breastmilk until 4 years old
- Take children everywhere
Collecting Food ( MEN )
BELIEFS Hunter Gatherers
- Religious beliefs - god = /KAGGEN and Herders -HUNT wild animals= meat
Stored water in
SAN AND KHOIKHOI
ostrich egg shells -
BELIEVED : hole sealed = grass
1. Creator of all things DRY SEASONS- water was hard to find /clay
2. Could turn into an eland
3. To meet with /kaggen = trance dance at night - 1.Woman dug HOLES IN SAND to find water
around fire 2.Scraped and Squeezed Roots for moisture
-SHAMAN - the man/woman = entered the
Trance ( helped enter spirit world )
-The Shaman was given the power of Some live in the deserts of Southern Africa TODAY
/kaggen to protect and heal everyone
SAN AND Khoikhoi NO LONGER live like they used to
4. Experiences of Shaman was painted on rocks
= lost their land and forced to change their way of life
The hunt and the BOW and ARROW
