Prehistoric Art

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What is significant about the discovery of cave art?

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it's the oldest art discovered

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What is the story of how cave art was discovered?

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Two kids were playing ball and discovered it by accident when the ball rolled into a cave.

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True or False: Everybody believed that the cave paintings were created a very long time ago.

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False

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Cave art is dated to be about how many years old?

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40,000 - 65,000

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Which of the following was NOT a common image seen on cave walls? Options: animals, plants, hand prints, people with weapons

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plants

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What do the cave art images tell us about the people that made them?

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They were likely hunters.

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True or False: The cave people used materials & tools such as mud, sticks, bones, and berries to create their paintings.

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True

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Why were some of the images overlapping over one another (such as animals)?

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to show the idea of movement or herds of running animals

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True or False: The red dots seen around images represented the blood of hunted animals.

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False