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G05 ~ Social Sciences: History
Image 1.1: A San woman from Botswana
Lesson 1 How we obtain information from hunter-gatherers and shepherds
Define Hunter: a person who kills animals for their meat and skins Shepherd: a person who keeps cattle and looks after them
Stone Age: thousands of years ago when people made objects from stone Core content The first people who lived in Southern Africa were hunter-gatherers. The men usually hunted animals for food and the women collected roots, nuts and berries for food. These people are
known as the San. We can get information about them from different sources.
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