Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans Through Pictures



Cave Art: Discovering Prehistoric Humans Through Pictures

You will need to access the following websites to answer the following questions:

• The Cave of Lascaux

• You can answer the questions directly into this word document and then print them out when you are finished.

• After exploring the web site, what do you think the cave artists were trying to say?

• Why do you think that there were so many animals and not as many people in the paintings?

• What can the paintings tell us about other aspects of the life of cave dwellers or Paleolithic people?

• How did they make these pictures if there were no stores to buy paint and brushes or tools for carving?

• What colors are prominent in the paintings, and what natural sources might provide these pigments if they didn't have crayons or markers?

• What other challenges might the cave artists have faced painting on cave walls and ceilings?

• What did they use for light?

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Explore the Cave of Lascaux

Take a virtual tour of the Cave of Lascaux, the site of some of the earliest known art recorded by humans.

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