Video: Mysteries of Cave Art – Comprehension Questions
(Microsoft Word version)

 

Directions: Answer all of the following questions on a separate piece of paper citing facts and information from the video.

 

1.     What kind of humans do scientists believe the cavemen were?

 

2.     How did the cave artists make stencils of the human hand?

 

3.     What do the dots placed among the animals in the paintings probably represent?

 

4.     Of what was the cave artists’ paint composed (made of)?

 

5.     What may have been the purpose of the cave paintings?

 

6.     What constellation might the cave artists have named long before the first know stargazers, the Chaldeans (part of the Babylonian civilization)?

 

7.     In what ways did the cave artists use the contours and irregularities of the cave walls?