MHI-08: HISOTRY OF ECOLOGY IN INDIA
Course Code: MHI-08
Assignment Code: MHI-08/AST/TMA/2016-17
Total Marks: 100
Q.
3. In the context of Indian examine the geographical spread of Pastoral
Communities and the factors promoting pastoralism.
Ans.
The pre-historic man was dependent on
roots-stems and the meat of animals for his need of food. He used to hunt
animals with his tools and implements. The hunter groups of men generally
hunted from those groups which had big animals. In this process sometimes the
young animals were captured by them. This must have encouraged men to
domesticate animals and might have given way to the emergence of pastoralism. There
is no clear evidence of the emergence of the pastoral community. We can merely
depend on our imagination about that stage. It seems that the hunting-gathering
communities had made some big animals their staple diet and in this process,
the goat and sheep were hunted in a large number but the young members of the
herds as well as female members were spared so that the source of food could
not get terminated. This process might have developed the feelings of
co-existence.
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