2.  The following questions are multiple choice and each question is a key idea from Chapter One.

3.  What important discovery did four teenagers make at Lascaux, France, in 1940?  A wooden stick used for throwing a spear.  The stone wall of an ancient storage shed.  Clay sculptures of an army of soldiers.  A cave filled with paintings of animals.

5.  Which of these activities would an archaeologist most likely do?  Read old newspapers.  Make maps.  Examine objects.  Study Earth’s features.  Read old newspapers.

6.  Examine objects.

7.  People who study the past are most like __________.  Detectives  Artists  Builders  Teachers

8.  Detectives

9.  What is an object made or used by people in the past?  A document.  A ritual.  A theory.  An artifact.

11.  Why do historians read diaries and letters from the past?  To learn to speak an ancient language.  To find out what happened and why.  To agree on plans for the future.  To compare their ideas of history.

12.  To find out what happened and why.

13.  Which of these is a human-made feature that a geographer might study?  A volcano.  A cave.  A road.  A spear.

14.  A road.

15.  A prehistoric object is one that comes from a time that is _________________.  before history was written  before electricity was discovered  before people lived in cities  before humans hunted animals

16.  before history was written

17.  What is the evidence that prehistoric cave artists built wooden structures (scaffolding) to stand on?  Pictures of the scaffolding have been found.  Many trees grew in the area.  Some paintings are too high to be reached from the floor.  The ancient planks are still there.

18.  Some paintings are too high to be reached from the floor.

19.  If ancient paintings were found in a cave, which of these questions would be hardest to answer?  What did people paint pictures of?  Why did people paint in caves?  How did people make the paint?  What did people use for paint brushes?

20.  Why did people paint in caves?

21.  Which clue to the past has been found near the artwork displayed in parts of caves?  Masks in the shapes of birds.  Maps of the land nearby.  Lamps for burning animal fat.  Prayer books for ceremonies.

22.  Lamps for burning animal fat.

23.  About how long ago were the objects and art described in this chapter created?  About 2 to 3 million years ago.  About 10,000 – 18,000 years ago.  About 500-800 years ago.  About 2,000 – 3,000 years ago.

24.  About 10,000 – 18,000 years ago.

25.  Why are ancient handprints found on cave walls very small?  The cave ceilings were very low.  The prints were made by children.  The smallest members of the group stayed home to paint.  People long ago were not as big as people today.

27.  What does an ancient spear thrower artifact, with it’s detailed carving, indicate about the person who may have used it?  This person was very strong.  This person was a hunter.  This person was a skilled painter.  This person prayed to animals.

28.  This person was a hunter.

29.  Which question about the past does cave art most help to answer?  What did geometric shapes mean?  What language did the people speak?  What did the people look like?  What animals lived in the area?

31.  What do scientists think may have been the reason why ancient artists made paint by grinding minerals and mixing powder with fat or oil?  To make different colors of paint for their art.  To find out which paint would last longest.  To make the paint dry in different lengths of time.  To use the paint in ceremonies for hunting different animals.

32.  To make different colors of paint for their art.

33.  Be prepared to look at some cave paintings and based on a description of when and where it was found, make some theories and educated guesses about the people who made these cave paintings.