Detectives Who Study the Past
Cave Art
Spear Thrower & Sculptures
Cave Art Tools
Vocabulary
100
The person who study the records of the past, including diaries, letters, and documents
What is a historian?
100
What is most common to see in cave paintings
What are animals?
100
This artifact was found in France.
What is Spear Thrower?
100
Scientists think paint was made by grinding colored ____________ into powder.
What is minerals?
100
An object made or used by people in the past.
What is an artifact?
200
These people create maps to show what they have learned
Who are geographers?
200
This is the cave where many famous paintings are found.
What is Lascaux?
200
Spear thrower was made out of ___________ antler bone.
What is reindeer?
200
These tools were made out of moss, fur, o rhuman hair.
What is brushes?
200
The time period before written history
What is prehistoric?
300
these people study the past by looking at artifacts that were left behind
What is an archeologist?
300
The area in caves where sounds are the loudest were thought to be used for this.....
What is special gatherings?
300
Clay sculptures of two ___________ were found in a cave in France.
What is bison?
300
Cave artists used sharpened ___________ to sculpt and engrave objects.
What is stone?
300
A ceremony
What is a ritual?
400
These detectives cover many categories of people who study the past.
What is a social scientist?
400
Paintings of humans are _________ in cave art.
What is rare?
400
The artist sculpted the two animals out of ___________
What is clay?
400
A ____________ was used for grinding minerals into poweder.
What is a grindstone?
400
An famous artifact made out of reindeer antler
What is Spear Thrower?
500
This person is interested in the recent past, over the last 1000 years or so.
What is a historian?
500
This painting was found inside Lascaux and shows a scene from a hunt.
What is Cave Painting of a Human?
500
The fact that a child's footprints were found next to the sculptures suggests they were used for this purpose....
What is a coming of age ceremony?
500
Artists may have blown paint through hollow ______________ to create softer textures.
What is bird bones?
500
Used to help create the paints used in cave art, often mixed with vegetable oil or animal fat.
What is minerals?
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