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What did San people use to make a bow and arrow?
The invention of the bow and arrow. They useda handbow and arrows with poisoned heads. After carefully stalking the animal whose tracks they have been following, they prepare to shoot. They shoot only once within shooting range. The poison penetrates through the blood system.
How do San people travel?
If they are out hunting or travelling, they would dig holes in the sand to find water. They also carry water in an ostrich eggshell.
What did the San do to get tools made from iron?
They removed rock containing iron containing iron-ore from by digging holes in the ground. The rock was crushed using tools such as stone hammers. It was then smelted then smelted in a oven.
What did the San paint?
The San used red, brown and yellow pigments as paint. They made white paint from white clay or bird droppings, black from manganese minerals and charcoal. They never used blue and green. The blood of an Eland was often mixed with the pigments.
Do the San people wear clothes?
The San’s clothing is minimal, men wear a small ankle or antelope skirt, a leather coat, and everything they need is kept in a small shoulder bag.
What tools did African farmers use?
Tools and weapons from iron and copper The early African farmers used iron to make spear tips, hammers, hoes and axes.
What kind of tools did the San people use?
The few objects that the San use are a bone pipe, tobacco and a punch, obviously they cannot miss the tools for hunting, the arch and a quiver made of Aloe Dichotoma, known as quiver tree; the San carry with then the arrows, the poison extracted from the Euphorbia damarana and the wooden sticks they use to light the fire.
What kind of clothes do the San people wear?
The Kalahari Desert and the San people. The san people usually wear little clothing including some sort of animal hide. The clothing usually covers no more than the waist leaving the rest of the body exposed. Although these people are traditional Aboriginal people to the african desert few of them are starting to wear western styled clothes.
What kind of languages did the San people speak?
Hunter-gatherers spoke languages from all three families, whereas herding only became an economic practice amongst Khoekhoe speakers. Today there are about 100 000 San people, speaking 35 Khoe-San languages across southern Africa including the non-San Hadzabe hunter-gatherers in Tanzania.
What did the San people do for a living?
San people are expert archers The figure embodies the spirit of the African Renaissance. When European nations began their Renaissance, they turned to the classical age of Greece and Rome when art and architecture had reached its zenith.