Video:
Mysteries of Cave Art – Comprehension Questions
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?