WorksheetsPrehistoric Art
Total questions: 10
Worksheet time: 5mins
What is significant about the discovery of cave art?
it’s brand new
it’s the oldest art discovered
it was meant to be a secret
What is the story of how cave art was discovered?
Two kids were playing ball and discovered it by accident when the ball rolled into a cave.
There were ancient writings and oral stories about the cave paintings.
A group of scientists discovered it while looking for fossils.
True or False: Everybody believed that the cave paintings were created a very long time ago.
True
False
Cave art is dated to be about how many years old?
90,000 - 100,000
75,000 - 85,000
40,000 - 65,000
Which of the following is NOT a known theory explaining why cavemen created art on cave walls?
to document what they saw
for communication
to tell about themselves and what they did
to practice their math skills by counting animals
Which of the following was NOT a common image seen on cave walls?
animals
plants
hand prints
people with weapons
What do the cave art images tell us about the people that made them?
They were likely hunters.
They weren't very creative people.
They were likely farmers.
True or False: The cave people used materials & tools such as mud, sticks, bones, and berries to create their paintings.
True
False
Why were some of the images overlapping over one another (such as animals)?
to show large amounts of animals
to show the idea of movement or herds of running animals
to show that some animals were closer than others
True or False: The red dots seen around images represented the blood of hunted animals.
True
False
