Walk-In Get 5 points! Take out notebook, folder, pencil box and agenda. Put away backpack. B’s, please get textbooks for your table. Copy the question and answer in sentences: What evidence do we have that early humans developed skills in using their hands? (Hint: Think of Stonehenge!)

Abilities of Early Humans Early humans learned to: Make tools out of stone. Build large stone structures (like Stonehenge) using ropes, ramps and things to pull loads with. Make weapons for protection. Record their daily activities!

Give some evidence that the Lascaux cave painters were good at art. Walk-In Get 5 points! Take out notebook, folder, pencil box and agenda. Put away backpack. C’s, please get textbooks for your table. Copy the question and answer in sentences: Give some evidence that the Lascaux cave painters were good at art.

Possible Answers They made paints and brushes out of things from nature. They used shapes in the stone cave walls to give a 3D effect to their paintings. They portrayed the animals accurately.

The Lascaux cave paintings

Our Stereotype of Early Humans We often see early humans (“cave people” depicted like this: Is this a fair way to portray humans?

The Lascaux Cave Paintings Read the text together on pages 6 – 7. Watch this video clip about the paintings. (Discovery Education, The Subject of Cave Art – Animals). Wonder about:/discuss with your group: Why did prehistoric humans from more than 15,000 years ago draw and paint pictures in caves?!?

The Lascaux Cave Paintings were created around 17,000BC to 12,000 BC!

The Lascaux Cave Paintings They show early humans may have wanted to Record their daily activities like hunting. Keep track of how many animals they hunted. Use their free time to be creative. Learn to do fine-motor skills with their hands.

The Lascaux Cave Paintings Paints were made from Colorful rocks and minerals crushed and mixed with water Roots, fruits and vegetables

The Lascaux Cave Paintings Paints were mixed with Animal blood or animal urine to make it last longer. (Uggghhh!  )

Create a Cave Painting! Using colors that could be obtained from roots, berries and other plants, create a cave painting that helps tell the story of the hunt, and other important events in the cave people’s lives. On the back, pretend to be a cave person and write how you might have lived, and why you used art to record events from your life! (Refer to your notes from today!) Picture is due at end of class or do as HW.