6. Many scientists believe that the
human culture developed during the
Stone Age.
During those time, humans began to
carve tools out of bones and stones
and paint images inside the caves.
7. BCE- Before the Common Era
CE- Common Era
ca- circa
C- century
8.
9. The people during those years were
nomadic. They lived by hunting
animals as their source of foo,
clothes and materials for their
weapons and tools.
10. Pre-historic era art is of interest not
only to the art historians, but also
to the archaeologists and
anthropologists.
11. The Stone Age paintings in caves
were conceivably their way of
communicating each other. It could
be for ceremonial purposes or other
kinds of beliefs.
12.
13. These ar cave paintings
in Lascaux, France were
discovered in 1940 by four
teenage boys explorng the
France. The cave contains
several halls whose walls
and ceilings are covered
with different images.
14.
15. • Why do you think there were so
many animals and not as many
people in the paintings?
• What can the paintings tell us
about other aspects of the life of
cave dwellers?
