-_- partly arboreal means that they would move around in trees in addition to walking upright, not that they walked with a stoop or something. It's not like our hips prevent us from using the monkey bars, now do they? I could still jump from one tree to another. Obviously, I wouldn't be particularly great at doing it all the time, but if I grew up using the trees to travel when it was suitable, I could manage.
Basically, the bone structure demonstrably is not suited for knuckle walking or other forms of movement associated with chimps, etc., and is suited best for walking upright. The bone structure just doesn't exclude swinging from tree to tree from time to time, which is what makes people uncertain as to whether or not Australopithecus was partly arboreal or just stayed on the ground.
And I believe that human women could not have possibly survived before the invention of bows and arrows, least the beasts smell the period blood (sarcasm). Humans have this thing called "intelligence", perhaps you have heard of it. Unlike, say, a buffalo, we can use the tracks left behind by lions, and patterns pertaining to where lions like to be, in order to avoid encountering them. Also, lions hunt primarily at night... humans hole up in heavily defended encampments at night and travel when predators are less active during the day. Plus, lions hold territory, more lions means they covered a larger area overall, not that they were necessarily in more concentrated populations.
Lol, as if lions were targeting humans exclusively. Also, as if humans didn't start out with basic tool making and fire use (more robust hominids such as Homo erectus used tools long before we existed). Also, I think you likely interpreted that footage incorrectly. Human bodies are best at long distance running. They were running the gazelle to death. You see, it doesn't matter that our prey can run faster, because we can run so much farther and easily track them even if they manage to escape our sight with their sudden sprint. We keep going and wait for our prey to inevitably collapse from exhaustion, catch up to them, and kill them.
Not only that, but should we encounter a lion's den, we wouldn't have to fight them off with our fists. We can use strategies, such as choking them with smoke, jabbing them with a poison needle, etc., and whomever lived to tell the tale could spread the news of a successful way to fight off lions.