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Ano: 2024 Banca: CESPE / CEBRASPE Órgão: Instituto Rio Branco Prova: CESPE / CEBRASPE - 2024 - Instituto Rio Branco - Terceiro Secretário - tarde |
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   Despite the tricky and life-threatening relationship between Paleolithic humans and the megafauna that comprised so much of their environment, twentieth-century scholars tended to claim cave art as evidence of an unalloyed triumph for our species. It was a “great spiritual symbol,” of a time when “man had just emerged from a purely zoological existence, when instead of being dominated by animals, he began to dominate them.” But the child-like and highly stylized stick figures found in caves do not radiate triumph. By the standards of our own time, they are excessively self-effacing and, compared to the animals portrayed around them, pathetically weak.

   While twentieth-century archeologists tended to solemnize prehistoric art as “magico-religious” or “shamanic,” today’s more secular viewers sometimes detect a vein of sheer silliness. India’s Mesolithic rock art portrays few human stick figures; those that are portrayed have been described by modern viewers as “comical,” “animalized” and “grotesque.” As Judith Thurman wrote about the artists, “despite their penchant for naturalism, rarely did they choose to depict human beings, and then did so with a crudeness that smacks of mockery.”

   But who are they mocking, other than themselves and, by extension, their distant descendants, ourselves? Of course, our reactions to Paleolithic art may bear no connection to the intentions or feelings of the artists. Yet there are reasons to believe that Paleolithic people had a sense of humor not all that dissimilar from our own.


Barbara Ehrenreich. The Humanoid Stain. Later on. Internet: (adapted).

Judge whether the following items about text I are right (C) or wrong (E).


By stating that the human figures in cave art are “self-effacing” (last sentence of the first paragraph), the author means that humans were virtually absent characters in cave paintings. 


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A afirmação está ERRADA.

Na frase: By the standards of our own time, they are excessively self-effacing and, compared to the animals portrayed around them, pathetically weak.

A expressão “self-effacing” não significa que os humanos estavam "virtualmente ausentes" nas pinturas rupestres. O termo "self-effacing" refere-se a algo ou alguém que é discreto, modesto ou que não busca destaque. Nesse contexto, o autor está comentando que as figuras humanas nas pinturas são representadas de forma simples e pouco destacada em comparação com os animais ao redor, mas não implica que elas estejam ausentes.

Portanto, a interpretação de que os humanos eram "virtualmente ausentes" está incorreta. As figuras humanas estão presentes, mas são retratadas de maneira discreta e estilizada.

O item deve ser julgado como ERRADO.

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