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This test consists of 5 short answer questions, 10 short essay questions, and 1 (of 3) essay topics.

Short Answer Questions

1. What was a standard Stone Age family unit?

2. Who was the Neanderthal who survived the imagined battled?

3. What did Stone Age people use to eat?

4. What was the elephant that killed a Nayaka called?

5. Where do the Nayaka people live?

Short Essay Questions

1. Why did the Nayaka refuse to help capture an elephant that had killed one of them?

2. How were Stone Age footprints preserved until today?

3. Why were gatherers mostly safe from disease?

4. How were the families of Ohalo organized?

5. What did archaeologists find in the Ohalo garbage dump?

6. What did hunter-gatherers know about their territory?

7. What is the Venus of Willendorf, and what can be learned from it?

8. What are orangutan families like?

9. What is one theory about the Lascaux Cave painting of the human and the bison?

10. What was "home" for Stone Age hunter-gatherers?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

The Stone Age is given that name because of the objects that have survived from that period. What will the current period be called by future archaeologists?

Essay Topic 2

What were the pros and cons of life in the Stone Age?

Essay Topic 3

What would life have been like in a Stone Age camp? How would it be organized? Where would people live, and what would they do in a regular day?

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