if you want to learn more

about historical changes in leisure time structures (present-day Americans', though, not Stone Age hunter-gatherers'), read Mark Aguiar and Erik Hurst's "Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time over Five Decades" in the Quarterly Journal of Economics 122:3 (August 2007): 969-1006, or listen to NPR's Labour Day interview with Hurst.

It's no wonder people in the Stone Age were such talented artists -- they started art classes at an early age. Read about the finger-painting palaeolithic toddlers engaged in at cave daycare.

To find out more about Ötzi, the Alpine Iceman, who died ca. 3200 BC, check out a review article in The Smithsonian (Feb. 2003), and learn how sexy Ötzi can be when he isn't even trying. Ötzi's Wikipedia entry (subject to all standard caveats about Wiki pages) contains many addititonal links.
Iceman: Hunt for a Killer, a 45-minute Discovery Channel documentary on Ötzi's untimely death is available under the Content tab on the companion BlackBoard site for this course. You can also read about Ötzi in T F X Noble et al.'s Western Civilization: The Continuing Experiment 4th edn (2005), pp. 36-37 [on Course Reserve].
Recently, some researchers have argued that Ötzi received a ceremonial burial at the site where he was discovered.

Ötzi (pronounced uh-tsee) is named after the Ötztal region of the Alps (on the border between Austria & Italy) in which he was found.