AROL 213 Final, Fall 1995

Date: February 7, 1996 ____ Time: | hour 30 minutes (Prof. H. Seeden) I Please, identify the three palaeolithic worked flints on the attached ilustration sheet by NAME WORKING METHOD PERIOD & AGE POSSIBLE USE il Please, briefly discuss the framed question below first, and then answer THREE of the subsequent questions concerned with particular aspects of the human Story. Begin each answer by repeating the title of the question. List your major points under each part first! “To all intents and purposes the physical evolution of humans all over ‘he world was complete by about 20,000 years ago. We do not see any further changes in the skulls of skeletons of human beings. But what now begins to evolve very rapidly are ideas, skills and ways of living, The retreat of the ice encouraged considerable local adaptations of the hunting and gathering lifestyle, and of course, isolated the inhabitants of Australia and the Americas.” * List the main features of the evolution of the skeleton, skull, brain size and capacity of early hominids and compare them with those of modern humans of about 20,000 years ago. * Describe a day in the life of a hunting-gathering group of people. * There is increasingly rapid progress in tool-making technologies from the Lower Palaeolithic to the Upper Palaeolithic period. List the major steps of this progress. * What do you know about the ART of Stone Age hunter-gatherers? * What, if anything, can the study of Early Humans and Native Peoples with hunter-gatherer economies of the world today teach us about ourselves ?