HISTORY 📖🏹 Flashcards
(20 cards)
What is the difference
different jobs between San Woman and San men?
San men hunt and track the animals and skin the animal and make tools for the San woman
San woman gather fruits, roots, water and nuts for the tribe. AND they take care of the little kids.
What are the plants the San used to make medicine?
Hoodia, Buchu, Sickle bush, and “Bushman’s poison “
What does the San use the Buchu for?
They use it to cure toothaches and headaches
Ways we can learn about hunter-gatherers…
The stories they tell
The objects they made
The rock art they painted
Books that have been written about them in modern times
Observing the lives of who live In a similar way today
What are the three types of sources
( how we collect evidence )
Written, material and oral source
Food the San ate?
They hunted wild animals and collected fruits, roots, and nuts from the environment environment
Where did they store their water?
They stored their water in ostrich egg shells.
What did the san use the Hoodia plant for?
The hoodia plant had a bitter taste. San hunters chewed this when hunting.
What does the word San mean?
San is pronounced, Saan and means ‘People with no cattle’
What is the other use for ostrich egg shells?
Ostrich egg is also used to make beads
What was the ‘bushmens poison’ used for?
The milky juice of this plant was used by San hunters to poison the tips of their hunting arrows 🏹
What was the Sickle bush used for?
The San chewed the roots of the Sickle bush and smear it on snake bites. The dark of the bush could also be used for headaches and toothaches.
What did the San believe?
The San called their god /Kaggen. /Kaggen was the creator of all things. They believed that /Kaggen could turn into an eland. To meet /Kaggen in the form of an eland, the San would preform a trance dance.
A trance dance explanation
A shaman is a man or a woman who’d enter the trance. The trance dance helped the shaman to enter the spirit world and make contact with /Kaggen in the form of an eland. While in a trance, a shaman was given the power of /Kaggen to protect and heal everyone
What does ethnography mean?
Learning and understanding the way of life people lived long ago and still live in a similar way today.
What were the sans tools made out of?
Stone and bone
What are the main colors in sans rock art, and where did they come from?
• red
• yellow
• white
• black
They were all collected from nature
What is a San Bow and arrow made out of?
Front- flexible wood
String- back muscles of a gemsbok
Arrow- stick and stone
What were the brushes made out of?
Feathers, or animal hair stuck to the end of reeds
How long have the San been in South Africa 🇿🇦
About 11,000 years
