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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. How old is the gravesite at Sunghir?

2. What was a standard Stone Age family unit?

3. How many kinds of fish were found in the garbage dump at Ohalo?

4. Roughly how long would it take someone to carve a single bead out of ivory?

5. Why would Stone Age people not often hunt something like a mammoth or bison?

Short Essay Questions

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

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

3. How was Lascaux Cave in France discovered?

4. What are orangutan families like?

5. What method did Stone Age people likely use to paint their handprints on a cave wall?

6. Why do modern humans not know of any specific historical events during the Stone Age?

7. Why have no Stone Age paintings of people or families been found?

8. Why is the name "Stone Age" misleading?

9. Why were gatherers mostly safe from disease?

10. Why do humans like to eat foods that are bad for them?

Essay Topics

Write an essay for ONE of the following topics:

Essay Topic 1

What topic is not included in the book that you think is surprising? Why?

Essay Topic 2

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?

Essay Topic 3

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?

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