Introduction
We know them as caves, but scientists call them something else.
What is karst?
3 large animals that inhabited caves prior to their extinction.
What are bears, lions, and hyenas?
The 2 things often depicted in cave art.
What are animal and human figures?
Describe the humidity in a cave.
What is very high humidity, usually above 90%.
The main reason our ancestors entered caves in the first place.
What is their immediate need for shelter?
Types of human traces found in caves (list 2).
What are artifacts like tools, pottery, footprints, and hearths to human bones?
Two different materials used to make cave paintings.
What is charcoal, mineral pigment, or animal fat?
In modern times, caves have been used for various purposes. List 2.
What is for preparing cheese, accommodating weapon factories, and being used by terrorists?
The 2 other reasons our book mentions why our ancestors may have gone into caves. (NOT TO DISCOVER UNKNOWN DARKNESS or FOR SHELTER)
What is ritual hunting grounds and a place to bury their dead?
3 different types of cave art.
What are paintings, engravings, and bas-reliefs?
All cave rooms and larger passages have this feature which is often associated with ritual activities.
What is resonance, acoustics, or locations where if certain musical notes are emitted, they will bounce back, amplified from the walls?
The 2 basic types of caves in regard to air circulation.
What is unidirectional and bidirectional?
The strange event that cause people to separate and forget about the true Creator God.
What is the Tower of Babel?
All of the caves today must have been formed this way.
What is sediment being deposited by the Flood?
All cave art is almost entirely restricted to this area on earth.
What is Europe? (specifically western Europe)
Creatures in caves are grouped into 3 categories. trogloxenes, ___________, and troglobites.
What is troglophiles?
The most important thing that caves provide us with nowadays.
What are karst aquifers (top quality drinking water)?
The main criterion used to separate various human cultures of the past.
What is the tools they made?
The human remains from Shanidar Cave revealed this about Neanderthal social life.
What is Neanderthals had a spoken language, cared for one another, and used flowers to decorate those buried?
The way creatures are able to live in an extreme, new environment such as caves, that disproves the theory of evolution.
What is adaptation or losing something they already had?