Discovering the Cave
Chauvet Cave is located here.
France
Chauvet cave formed in rock primarily made of __________.
Limestone.
Reasearchers discovered more than ________ animal bones inside the cave.
4,000
Researchers identified approximately 430 individual animal images representing _____ different species.
14.
The red pigment used in some cave images came from a mineral called ______.
Hematite.
The Cave's paintings are more than ______ years old.
37,000
The rock formed when minerals and sediments accumulated in an ancient _________ enviornment.
Marine/Ocean/Tropical
Animals shown in the cave include horses, lions, and woolly _________.
Mammoths
Storytelling.
The black pigment used for many animal drawings came from _______.
Charcoal.
The cave contains 91,000 square feet of underground _________.
Space/Chambers
Water retreated from the cave to form it around ___________ million years ago.
2
The cave's animal artwork provides clues about the wildlife that lived in the region during the _______ Age.
Ice.
The documentary explains that the cave contains no scenes of everyday life or_______.
Landscapes
Red hand images in the cave were created by blowing pigment around the hand to create a hand _______.
Stencil.
The Cave was rediscovered in the year ______.
1994
The cave developed through geological changes, including uplift, erosion, and the movement of ______ ________.
Tectonic plates.
Prehistoric human used ______ to help them see in the cave.
Torches.
Chauvet cave challenged the older idea that realistic art only developed much _______ in human history.
Later.
Artist sometimes created lighter colors by scraping away clay or surface material to reveal ______ underneath.
Rock.
Chauvet Cave is nearly twice as old as the famous cave paintings at __________.
Lascaux.
The caves formation is connected to a process called _______, which creates caves and other features in soluble rock.
Karst
The prehistoric humans associated with the cave's artwork belonged to the _______ culture.
Aurignacian.
The Panel of Horses features several detailed images of ________.
Horses.
Some prehistoric artists showed several legs or heads on one animal to suggest ________.
Movement.