1 CAVES
This is a place under the ground where people can find rocks, animals, and sometimes very old paintings.
A cave
A picture made using colors/paint is called a ______.
Painting
A dog, cat, horse, and bison are all examples of ______.
Animals
People used these parts of trees or plants to make some of their paintbrushes.
Sticks/Leaves
This person studies things from the past by digging in the ground.
An Archaeologist
If something is on the walls of a cave, it is not outside. It is ______ the cave.
inside
People can use art to tell a ______ without writing words.
Story
This huge, hairy relative of the elephant lived in the Ice Age and had long, curved tusks.
A Mammoth
What word can mean the soft covering of an animal, such as a dog, cat, or bison?
(Not Hair)
Fur
An archaeologist might dig in the ground to find things that tell us about ______ in the past.
Life
Altamira is a famous cave in this European country, in between Portugal and France
Spain
People visit this building to look at old objects and art. Many are free for school groups.
Museum
People in the past painted animals because animals were an important part of their ______.
Life/Lives
This comes from animals and can be used to make a paintbrush.
Hair/Fur
This person studies and writes about the past.
Historian
A cave painting is usually found on this part of a cave.
On the wall
If you want to make a painting, you need something with color called ______.
Paint
If people were trying to catch animals for food, they were ______ them.
Hunting
People used fruit and plants to make this for their paintings.
Paint
This person studies fossils and learns about the time of dinosaurs.
A Paleontologist
Imagine finding a picture on a cave wall that is thousands of years old. It is probably a ______ painting.
ancient/old
You find an ancient object buried underground. Which person would probably be especially interested in investigating it?
A) Archaeologist
B) Palaeontologist
C) Singer
An Archaeologist
The paintings can help us understand how people ______ in the past.
Lived
This red substance from the body was also used to make paint.
Blood
Archaeologists, historians, and palaeontologists can all be described as people who study the ______.
Past