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The people who used to hunt animals and gather fruits, roots and seeds from the forest are called hunter-gatherers.
The site is the place where archaeologists used to excavate and find things like tools, weapons, ornament, etc.
It was the place where people used to live together just like a village.
The place where ancient people used to make tools and weapons using stones was termed as factory.
Palaeolithic was the Old Stone Age when people were hunters and gatherers. They used simple tools made of stones and they used to live in caves. The paintings found in caves were also made during this time.
Mesolithic was the Middle Stone Age when people started using polished small tools made of stones. Agriculture was newly introduced to them.
It was the New Stone Age when people started using powerful weapons such as axe. It was the time when they started growing crops. They also started domesticating animals.
Microliths is the term used to denote tools that were small. The use of such tools was popular in the Mesolithic period of the Stone Age.
The ancient people learned to tame animals for their personal use, which is called domestication. Their domestic animals include cattle, sheep, and goats.
The hunter and gatherer who used to hunt animals and gather food from the forest somehow learned to grow crops. Hence, they are called farmers. The initial crops they grew were rice and wheat.
Herders were the people who started domesticating animals to get milk, skin, and hides from them.
Burials were the site where archaeologists have found dead bodies buried in ancient time.