Vocabulary Study 16 Grade 10 Cave Art

We might expect that early artistic efforts would be ...................., but the cave paintings of Spain and southern France show a marked degree of skill.

• conscious

• crude

• bare

• bovine

Perhaps, like many ...................... peoples, Upper Paleolithic men and women believed that the drawing of a human image could cause death or injury.

• sought

• conscious

• contemporary

• exaggerated

Another explanation for the focus on animals might be that these people .................... improve their luck at hunting.

• exaggerated to

• confined to

• ceased to

• sought to

But if improving their hunting luck was the .............. motivation for the paintings, it is difficult to explain why only a few show signs of having been speared.

• bare

• chief

• crude

• tusk

The data they present suggest that the animals portrayed in the cave paintings were mostly the ones that the painters preferred for meat and for materials such as ..............

• hides

• bovines

• engravings

• slabs

In addition, the paintings mostly portray animals that the painters may have feared the most because of their size, speed, natural weapons such as ................ and horns, and the unpredictability of their behavior.

• spears

• tusks

• slabs

• trappings

That is, mammoths, ....................., and horses are portrayed more often than deer and reindeer.

• spears

• hides

• shafts

• bovines

But in that period, when getting food no longer depended on hunting large game animals (because they were becoming extinct), the art ................... focus on portrayals of animals.

• exaggerated

• confined to

• ceased to

• sought to

Upper Paleolithic art was not ..................... cave paintings.

• trapped to

• confined to

• engraved

• bared to

Many .................... of spears and similar objects were decorated with figures of animals.

• tusks

• crudes

• slabs

• shafts