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List three things we might learn about ancient peoples from the art they leave behind.

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Paleolithic people tended to create imagery of …

What are the possible reasons why they made these images when they were so preoccupied with survival?

They’re imagery can be located in two different kinds of physical places. Detail a map location plus the kinds of places they have been found.

How has the art in the daylight locations survived compared to the dark locations? How may the well lit locations be perceived differently by the Paleolithic than the dark ones?

Who may have made the art and how did that come to be a hypothesis?

Note the different kinds of art they made, plus the methods of making them. Make sure to include how paint was created.

Explain the difference between high and low relief sculpture.

What artifacts have been discovered that speak to the ancients having social hierarchies? Explain how or why they speak to someone being seen as more important that another? Does it parallel to how we behave today? How?

What artifact indicates that hunting was complex and organized? Explain.

According to scientists in the south of France who are excavating a Neanderthal shelter, very little changed over the course of the 40,000 years of the shelter’s occupation. He referred to the people who lived there as “flexible, but not innovative”.

Define innovative.

What is the proof that the Paleolithic people were flexible?

Why do experts say they were not innovative?

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