Exercises on Prehistory

(UFPE)

“Prehistory has already been said to be a continuity of Natural History, with an analogy between organic evolution and the progress of culture”

Regarding prehistory, which of the following is incorrect?

a) Several sciences help in the study, such as anthropology, archeology and chemistry.

b) Prehistory can be divided into Paleolithic and Neolithic, with regard to the technical process of working stone.

c) About the Paleolithic, we can say that it was the period of great artistic development, as an example are the anthropomorphic and zoomorphic paintings carried out in caves.

d) The Neolithic presented an artistic development different from the Paleolithic, through the geometric traits of drawing and painting.

e) The first human-like beings were Australopithecus and Java Man who were much more adapted than Neanderthal Man.

(FCSCL-SP)

Examine the three propositions, judging whether they are true or false. Then tick the correct alternative.

I. Prehistory, the period between the appearance of man on Earth and the use of writing, is traditionally divided into two periods:Paleolithic and Neolithic.

II. The domestication of animals and the emergence of agriculture occurred only after the invention of writing, therefore later than the Neolithic.

III. The duration of the Paleolithic is much longer than that of the Neolithic, involving naturally more primitive technical levels.

a) All propositions are true.

b) Only propositions I and II are true.

c) Only propositions I and III are true.

d) Only propositions II and III are true.

e) All propositions are false.

About the constitution of the first urban structures it is correct to say:

a) During the emergence of the first urban formations, men lived in caves.

b) In the first urban formations rudimentary instruments produced by man appeared.

c) The beginning of the first cities already indicated a process of sedentarization of the man, provided by the Agricultural Revolution.

d) When the first urban formations appeared, man was essentially hunter and gatherer.

e) In the formation of the first cities, man gained the ability to cling to trees, becoming bipedal.

(FGV-SP)

The transition from the Upper Paleolithic to the Neolithic (between 10,000 BC and 7000 BC) was accompanied by some basic changes for humanity. Among these, we could mention:

a) the emergence of spoken language;

b) the domestication of animals and plants, that is, the emergence of agriculture and grazing;

c) the emergence of magic and art;

d) the settlement of large areas previously unpopulated, such as Central and Western Europe;

e) the appearance of several new instruments, such as the bone needle, harpoons, hooks, hatchet, spear and knife.

(Enem)

If we compare the age of the planet Earth, estimated at four and a half billion years (4.5∙109 years), with that of a 45-year-old person, then, when the first vegetables began to bloom, the Earth would already be 42 years old. . She has only been with modern man for the last four hours, and about an hour ago she saw him begin to plant and harvest. Less than a minute ago he noticed the noise of machines and industries and, as an environmental defense NGO denounces, it was in those last sixty seconds that all the garbage on the planet was produced!
The text allows us to conclude that agriculture started to be practiced about

a) 365 years.

b) 460 years.

c) 900 years.

d) 10,000 years.

e) 460,000 years.

Letter E . Neanderthal Man, who lived between 230 and 30 thousand years ago, was responsible for the creation of complex weapons and already organized their funeral rituals. He came to live with the first men and the reasons for his disappearance have not yet been clarified. Therefore, the order offered by the question does not correspond to the process of human development in Prehistory.

The second proposition is the only false one. The process of inventing writing is the last great event that closes the Neolithic and Prehistory. At that time, we can already observe the development of great civilizations that, for a long time, had already established and experimented with the conception of agricultural techniques and the domestication of animals.

Letter C. Observing the experiences of man lived in Prehistory, we can see that the emergence of cities can be seen as an unfolding of the process of sedentarization offered by the discovery of agriculture. In this way, cities mark the formation of large communities that sustained themselves from the development of agriculture.

Letter B . In this period we observe the presence of the first communities responsible for the development of agriculture and the domestication of animals. From a historical point of view, these changes brought greater comfort to man's life and established another step in the process of domination over nature. Despite this, we cannot say that such discoveries determined the end of the nomadic communities.

Letter D . Being a question of interdisciplinary nature, the student must build a simple rule of three so that he can develop the resolution of this problem. In this case, he can find the equivalence between a year of human life and the age of the Earth, and then establish the other proportions that equate an hour with the age of the planet.