How did the Khoisan preserve their food?

Answer 1

The Khoisan are not one people, they are the Khoi and the San, Khoisan is a term used for the use of clicks the languages they use, both different languages but having influence on each other. As for what they ate, the Khoi were herders and farmers and ate what they grew and bred, and the San were hunter gathers that ate what they caught or gathered and was basically anything they could get their hands on, ranging from buck- large and small, zebras, porcupines, hares, lions, giraffes, fish, insects, tortoises, flying ants, snakes- venomous and non-venomous, hyenas, eggs and wild honey.

Answer 2

San, Sanqua was a name given to hunters by the Khoekhoen of the Cape. The word means 'people different from ourselves' and became associated with those without livestock, or people who stole livestock.The Khoisan was exclusively hunters and did not keep animals except for dogs which the use for hunting and early warning.

Answer 3

The Khoi and the San peoples of southern Africa have two distinct food cultures. The San peoples were hunters and gatherers, while the Khoi peoples were cattle herders. The most common food preservation method would have been drying, and salting with harvested sea salt.

Answer 4

Most people who went hunting were called hunter-gatherers, they hunted nuts, roots, and wild fruits, they also hunted animals for meat and clothing. They made tools out of wood, animal bones and then stone. The first use of stone tools marks the beginning of a period scientists call the stone age. East and West Africans learned how to heat and shape iron, they used it to form parts of tools such as hoe blades, arrowheads and ax heads. These strong iron tools made farming easier and created food surpluses, and as a result population increased.

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Answer 5

the Khoisan people in ancient days ate berries and roots