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Unit 1: Indigenous inhabitants of the Cape in the 17th century - Coggle…
Unit 1: Indigenous inhabitants of the Cape in the 17th century
San hunter-gatherers
lived in small groups
were nomadic
gathering plant foods like fruits, nuts, berries and roots from the environment
moved around to find different plant foods at different times of the year
got their food by hunting wild animals
many thousands of years lived all over southern Africa
first people to live at the Cape
San's rock paintings and engravings found all over southern Africa
17th century there were San hunter-gatherers living at the Cape and in the rest of southern Africa
Khoikhoi herders
17th century, they also kept cattle and goats and sometimes dogs
larger than the San groups and they moved around to find the best grazing for their livestock
settled in the winter rainfall areas of the Cape where there was good grazing for their sheep
lived in reed houses that they could take with them when they moved
herds of hairy, fat-tailed sheep
2 000 years ago, move to the SW parts of southern Africa
Cattle were used for their meat and hide and cows for their milk
pastoralists who keep animals that are useful to them