Detectives from the past
People who study history are a lot like__________.
What is a Detective?
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?
Scientist also believes that caves with animal paintings were used to hold __________________.
What are ceremonies?
Anything made or used by humans, such as clothing, tools, weapons, and coins.
What are artifacts?
Included engraving artifacts, grinding stones, and scrapers.
What are prehistoric tools?
People who study the features of the Earth
What are geographers?
Places that provided information in the form of paintings and artifacts about how humans lived in ancient times.
What are caves?
A painting that is not very common in caves.
What are human paintings?
Before written history
What is prehistory?
They can help you learn what animals were in that area in the past.
What are paintings?
People who might go digging for artifacts
What are archeologists?
Cave painters burned in lamps for be used in maps
What is animal fat?
Many scientists believe there were a way for artists to sign their paintings.
What are handprints?
The characteristics of an object’s surface that can be identified by feeling or viewing it
What is texture?
Scientist believe they had special meanings in rituals
What are geometrical shapes?
People who record the past
What are historians?
Activity showed in a painting in which humans appears riding horses.
What is hunting?
In prehistoric times were often lodged inside an artifact, which would release the weapon faster than when normally thrown.
What are spears?
In prehistoric times, spears were often lodged inside them which would release the weapon faster than when normally thrown.
What are spear throwers?
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?
They work conducting investigations, asking questions, studying the evidence for clues, and forming hypotheses
What are social scientists?
One reason scientist believes artists may have tried to show they believed animals had__________________.
What are magical powers?
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?
Relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony
What is a ritual?
Four things that were found inside the caves that gives us information about the past
What are paintings, clay sculptures, artifacts, art tools?