Social studies

Cave Paintings

Lets Explore the Cave!

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Vocabulary
Word Caves Cave art Prehistoric people Primitive people Invented Daily life events Definition People living before recorded history Early people a long time ago. Paintings on the walls of caves Making or creating a new thing. Events in somebodys daily life. An empty space in side of hill or other areas.

possessions

Items a person owns.

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Why did they paint the cave?

What do the paintings mean?

Just the animals that were around at that time.

Instructions on how to hunt or not to hunt. The cave was used for religious ceremonies.

Paintings were for good luck in hunting.

Homework: Cave Art in 2013 Instructions:

On a piece of paper, draw a piece of cave art that would allow someone 17,000 years from now to understand what our culture was like.