ECONOMICS (CBSE/UGC NET)

Detailed explanation-1: -The Mesolithic Age was a transitional phase between the Paleolithic Age and the Neolithic Age. The people of this age lived on hunting, fishing, and food gathering; later on they also domesticated animals. Mesolithic is the period between the Upper Paleolithic and the Neolithic.

Detailed explanation-2: -Hunting and gathering was presumably the subsistence strategy employed by human societies beginning some 1.8 million years ago, by Homo erectus, and from its appearance some 0.2 million years ago by Homo sapiens.

Detailed explanation-3: -Prehistoric humans were originally hunter-gatherers who nourished themselves by following the migration of animals and ripening of foods such as wild fruits and berries. Hunter-gatherer communities could not support high population densities in part, because food resources were not steady or predictable.

Detailed explanation-4: -Definition of Hunting and Gathering (noun) The foraging of uncultivated plants and undomesticated animals for subsistence.