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Social Scientists
Cave Paintings
Main Idea
Vocab
BONUS ROUND!
100
Social scientists are similar to this group of people because they try to solve the mysteries of the past.
What are detectives?
100
Paintings of these are rare in cave art.
What are humans?
100
A person who studies human society.
What is a social scientist?
100
Before written history.
What is prehistory?
100
The country where four teenage boys and a dog discovered the cave paintings of Lascaux in 1940.
What is France?
200
These social scientists are the recorders of the past.
What are historians?
200
Prehistoric artists mixed minerals with this to make paint.
What is animal fat?
200
This expert creates maps.
What is a geographer?
200
The study of the distant past, from the earliest humans through the first great civilizations.
What is ancient history?
200
The strange creature shown in a cave painting that may actually be two hunters in disguise.
What is the "unicorn"?
300
This social scientist studies artifacts such as bones and tools.
What is an archaeologist?
300
These are always very realistic in cave art.
What are animals?
300
This expert studies written documents and artifacts.
What is a historian?
300
Relating to a ceremony, such as a religious ceremony.
What is a ritual?
300
A weapon used to propel a spear much farther and with more accuracy.
What is a spear thrower (atlatl)?
400
These social scientists study natural and human-made features of the earth.
What are geographers?
400
These are the only colors seen in cave art.
What are red, orange, yellow, black, brown, and white?
400
This person studies objects created by or left behind by people or animals.
What is an archaeologist?
400
An object made or used by people or animals in the past.
What is an artifact?
400
What most experts think cave paintings are about.
What is hunting? (Or religion.)
500
These social scientists study written documents and artifacts.
What are historians?
500
Cave artists used these to blow paint onto cave walls.
What are hollow (bird) bones?
500
This is easier to prove about cave art.
What is HOW people painted cave art?
500
An expert who studies the past by examining written documents and artifacts.
What is a historian?
500
The cave painting showing a pride of lions hunting rhinos is known as the world's oldest...
What is a comic book?