AROL 213 Final, Fall 2001

THe Human Story | THE OLD STONE AGE | (up to ca. 10,009 BC) Final Examination Date: February 7", 2002 Time: TWO Hours I IDENTIFY THE ICONS (50 minutes) = The TEN (10) icons on the attached page represent specific environments, actors, activities and human creations (artifacts). = Please, identify each of the above in key words ora brief paragraph. I ERICAN UNTVFERS i LIBRARY TELL THE STORY soit The discovery in Affica of Avstralopithecines, and the study of their skeletal remaing.and teeth have revealed that they were bipedal. did not eat meat as a regular part of their diet, and were unable ta hunt large animals. They were mainly peaceful vegetarians, rather like chimps and gorillas today The first—early twentieth century—popular image of the ‘murderous ape’ is now aS extinct as the Australopithecines themselves. = How essential were ihe new—late twentieth century and on—research meihodelogies used in Prehistoric Archaeology, in enabling us to more correctly piece jogeiher the story of our fossil ancestors 7 There are important other sources of information to indicate that early humans of both sexes were food-sharing, creative, and rather more cooperative than assumed by many at the beginning of prehistoric research. - if you wanted To make a film about the environmental context or ‘world’, and the life style of some of our “Stone Age’ ancestors, where would you look for your information, where would you go to shoot the film, and what story or stories would you tell? RICAN PNTVERS! LIBRARY GF SEMROT