Detectives from the past
Cave Art I
Cave Art 2
Vocabulary
General Knowledge
100

 People who study history are a lot like__________.

What is a Detective?

100

Some show what kinds of animals roamed the Earth and what methods people used to hunt them. Often, provide hints about people's beliefs.

What are paintings?

100

Scientist also believes that caves with animal paintings were used to hold __________________.

What are ceremonies?

100

Anything made or used by humans, such as clothing, tools, weapons, and coins.

What are artifacts? 

100

Included engraving artifacts, grinding stones, and scrapers.

What are prehistoric tools? 

200

People who study the features of the Earth

What are geographers?

200

Places that provided information in the form of paintings and artifacts about how humans lived in ancient times.  

What are caves? 

200

A painting that is not very common in caves.

What are human paintings? 

200

 Before written history

What is prehistory? 

200

They can help you learn what animals were in that area in the past.

What are paintings? 

300

People who might go digging for artifacts

What are archeologists? 

300

Cave painters burned in lamps for be used in maps

What is animal fat? 

300

Many scientists believe there were a way for artists to sign their paintings.

What are handprints? 

300

The characteristics of an object’s surface that can be identified by feeling or viewing it

What is texture?

300

Scientist believe they had special meanings in rituals

What are geometrical shapes? 

400

People who record the past

What are historians?

400

Activity showed in a painting in which humans appears riding horses.

What is hunting?

400

In prehistoric times were often lodged inside an artifact, which would release the weapon faster than when normally thrown.

What are spears?

400

In prehistoric times, spears were often lodged inside them which would release the weapon faster than when normally thrown.

What are spear throwers? 

400

They look at data in detail, such as studying the data they've collected, reanalyzing already existing data, analyzing historical records and documents, and interpreting the effect of location on culture and other aspects of society.

What are social scientists?

500

They work conducting investigations, asking questions, studying the evidence for clues, and forming hypotheses

What are social scientists?

500

One reason scientist believes artists may have tried to show they believed animals had__________________.



What are magical powers?

500

Showed that a cave belong to certain clan, were used in important ceremonies and footprints of young people were found near them.

What are sculptures?

500

 Relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony

What is a ritual?

500

Four things that were found inside the caves that gives us information about the past

What are paintings, clay sculptures, artifacts, art tools?

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