Playing in the Mud
The material used to create color on any surface
What is pigment?
Prehistoric artists painted hunting scenes with many types of tools...
What are media?
The most common cave art subject.
What is hunting? (or animals)
A black substance collected from campfires to make art.
What is charcoal?
Primitive paint brushes were made from this
What is animal hair?
This can be dug up near riverbanks to make bowls and sculptures.
What is clay?
Panther Cave in Texas features North America's oldest cave art, as well as this unusual color.
What is blue?
A holy man (or woman) of a tribe, who may have traveled deep into caves to make art for rituals.
What are shamans?
Prehistoric artists used these simple pictures to tell a story without using words.
What are symbols?
This means to scratch into rock.
What is engraving?
The feel of something
What is texture?
A large herd of this type of animal is beautifully painted in this Spanish cave ceiling.
What is Altamira?
This style of cave art is so old, that aboriginals believe it was made in "Dreamtime" by two creation brothers, Jabaringi and Yagjagbula.
What is "x-ray" style art?
Symbols from many passing tribes tell a story on this ancient rock, found in Canyonlands Ntl. Park near Moab, Utah.
What is Newspaper Rock?
A carved, portable ornament worn as jewelry to protect against evil or danger.
What is an amulet?
This red fluid could be used, not as paint, but as a mixing medium on cave walls.
What is blood?
A profile view of this type of animal is seen hunting together in Chauvet cave (France).
What is lionness?
San, or Bushmen, is another name for the people that made over 40,000 art images in this country.
What is South Africa?
The name for rock carvings or markings, especially prehistoric ones.
What are petroglyphs?
A mix of bacteria growth, manganese, and rainfall over many years, gave Newspaper Rock its dark coating.
What is desert varnish?
Name one extinct animal, whose bones scientists have found in mud.
What is auroch, giant sloth, short faced bear, Irish elk, mammoth, hell pig, cave lion, cave bear, etc.?
The Ubirr site in northern Australia features a picture of this extinct tiger.
What is Tasmanian?
"Frieze of Deer" in Lascaux cave features the first art scene that the hunter actually saw (an observation drawing). It shows something unique above the fourth deer's antlers.
What are 7 full moon?
An unfortunate man loses to a bison in this famous French cave.
What is Lascaux?
In Cueva de las Manos in Argentina, hands were used as these, both using negative or positive shapes.
What are stencils?