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Adventures in Time and Place
Grade 6: World
Infographic #2: Old Stone Age Technology Around the World
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1. Learn more about the Old Stone Age by viewing cave paintings from more than 31,000 years ago. But the only way you can visit this Stone Age cave is through pictures. To find out why, go to Chauvet-Pont-d’Arc: the cave’s newsletter.
http://www.culture.fr/rhone-alpes/chauvet/anglais/lettre3/grotte.htm

  • Scroll down and read about this marvelous discovery and how it is preserved.
  • Click pictures in the last paragraph. Then, click engravings and paintings in the list of topics on the left.
  • Study the picture and its description.
  • Click the arrow under the picture to continue.

Online Activity: A Stone Age Cave with a Story to Tell
Use the Web site to answer these questions. Type your answers below.



   1. How would allowing visitors to enter this cave harm it as an archaeological site?    

   2. What evidence do we have that both bears and humans once occupied this cave?    

   3. What tools and materials do you think the artists who created these cave pictures used?    

   4. How do you think the artists made or obtained the “paints” they used for these pictures?    

   5. What do the pictures tell you about the lives of the people who made them? How might they have obtained their food? What might they have feared?    


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  • What do the graph and timeline tell you about Stone Age shelters?
  • Scroll down to see pictures of Old Stone Age shelters. Where were they found? What were they made of?
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