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ARCHAEOLOGY CAN HELP YOU TO HAVE A BETTER UNDERSTANDING OF THE PAST OF YOUR PROVINCE BY LOOKING AT:
How people lived; and
Which objects they used in their daily lives.
In this learning unit you are going to do four exercises to help you with this.
(a) The following objects were found in a cave!Work in pairs and discuss the following questions:
For what purpose was each object used?
How were they made?
From what were they made
When we they made?
The following objects have been found in your neighbour’s refuse bin. The objects found at the top were written down first, and those found at the bottom of the bin were written down last.
A TASK FOR YOU!
(b) Divide into groups and use the clues to discover as much as possible about this family. Then write a short account on a typical day in their lives.
meat bones
two empy cold drink tins and a wine bottle
twelve cigarette butts
potato peels
The Sunday Times
an empty Cereal box
egg-shells
pieces of bread
empty dog food bag
two empty Pick 'n Pay bags
empty Solly Kramer bag
Radio and TV magazine
four old spark-plugs, oil-filter
empty oil-can
used tea-bags, milk-container
broken rugby-ball
(Your teacher can also bring his/her clues to school to bring the exercise closer to reality!)
When you, as detectives, have gathered information about this, you are called archaeologists and you are busy with:
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An archaeologist can also obtain information from rock-paintings . We are going to study San rock-paintings.
BACKGROUND INFORMATION!
There have been hunter-gatherers in Southern Africa for more than 2 million years. The first of these groups, like the San, arrived in South Africa 10 000 years ago. They trekked around in small family groups, looking for food. (This has been confirmed by research related to their bones, rock-paintings and tools.) The men hunted and the women gathered wild edible plants (e.g. fruit, bulbs, etc.). They also caught fish. During winter they usually lived in reed huts or caves. In summer they just slept in hollows covered with grass or reeds. The clothes of the San, of course, were made from animal skins.
(c) Your friend is an archaeologist. State whether his deductions are true or false about the rock-paintings.
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| 1. | While the men dance, the women sit on the side, clapping their hands. | ||
| 2. | The men carry three sticks to keep the rhythm or beat. | ||
| 3. | The men wear caps made from antelope hair. | ||
| 4. | The painting was originally red. |
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| 5. | The San usually hunted alone. | ||
| 6. | They could hunt animals bigger and stronger than themselves. | ||
| 7. | The San were good hunters. |
(d) Acquire sources from which you can get the following information. Name the source and the page number on which the information is found.
1. How did the San hunt wild animals?
2. How did they start the fire when they wanted to cook meat?
3. Did the San tame animals? Motivate.
4. How did they save important stories (like a great hunt) for posterity?
LO 1
HISTORICAL ENQUIRY The learner will be to use enquiry skills to investigate the past and present.
We know this when the learner:
1.1 finds sources: with guidance, selects sources useful for finding information on the past (e.g. oral, written and visual sources, including maps, graphs and tables, objects, buildings, monuments, museums);
1.2 works with sources:
records and categorises information from a variety of sources (e.g. oral, written and visual sources, including maps, graphs and tables, objects, buildings, monuments, museums);
1.3 answers the question:
continues to use information from sources to answer questions about people, events, objects, and places in the past.
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