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Social scientists are scholars who study
Human society
An object made or used by people in the past is called
Artifact
What is the evidence that prehistoric cave artists built wood structures (scaffolding) to stand on?
Some paintings are too high to be reached from the floor.
How did prehistoric artists deal with the uneven surfaces of the caves?
They included uneven surfaces as part of their composition.
Which of these activities would an archaeologist most likely do?
Examine objects
Which of these is a human-made feature that a geographer might study?
A road
Which clue to the past has been found near the artwork displayed in parts of caves?
Lamps for burning animal fat
Why are ancient handprints found on cave walls very small?
People long ago weren't as big as people today
People who study the past are most like
detectives
What unique challenge does the study of prehistoric history present?
Lack of evidence from the period
What material was used to make the bison statue in the cave?
Clay
Question #13
This person was a hunter
Why do historians read diaries and letters from the past?
To find out what happened and why
If ancient paintings were found in a cave, which of these questions would be the hardest to answer?
Why did people paint in caves?
What do scientists think may have been the reason why ancient artists made paint by grinding different minerals and mixing the powder with fat or oil?
To make different colors of paint for their art
You can see cracks in the picture of the bison. What do scientists believe explains these cracks?
The cracks may have happened soon aFer the sculptures were made, while the clay was drying.
What information about the bison sculptures would most interest a geographer?
Geographers would most likely be interested in the informa?on describing the discovery of an ar?fact deep in a cave formed by an underground river in southern France
Which question about the past does cave art most help to answer?
What animals lived in the area
What is the most likely reason these sculptures were unknown to scientists before 1912?
The bisons’ loca?on, deep inside the cave, in a part of the cave that is hard to get to, may be the most likely reason why the bison sculptures were not found until modern times