Artwork from the Lascaux caves in France

1. The Lascaux caves are located in the Lascaux woods in France.

years ago for religious and leisure purposes.

2. Prehistoric cave painters had to crawl to the very back of caves and structure their own tools like paintbrushes from flint sticks. Rocks sometimes got in the way but also added interesting textures.

3. Cro magnons painted as far as 30,000 years ago for religious and leisure purposes.

4. Here is a carved painting of a horse from the Lascaux caves.

Bison.

5. The Altamira technique was where the artist would first carve an animal. Then fill in the carved cracks with a black or dark brown color. The filling would be a similair color only a tiny bit lighter.

6. In September 1940 the Lascaux cave's artwork was discovered. Archeologists are now examining it to find more theories about what life in the stone age was like.

7. Paintings and carvings are as long as 6.5'. They were often stacked and painted over when painters ran out of room. Hard bumpy surfaces from the rocky cave created a unique texture. Some artwork was not very neat because painters had very little light seeping through the dark cave to guide them.

Pre history blog assignment 2-5-09

1. Shown here is a Homo habilis or early form of humans today from 2 million years ago.

Having opposable thumbs and walking upright, human species are able to grip and carry objects easier. With larger brains our species are able to communicate and comprehend in languages for greater survival rates.

2.

These are bones of Lucy. She is a fossil example of what human species bones were like 2 million years ago. Notice similarity between Lucy and today's human skeleton pictures. These prove that our species existed 2 million years ago and an example of how we evolved. Because of Lucy the human body has around 120 bones.

3.

Homo habilis were the first primate like form of humans. They developed tools similar to ones we use today to help complete daily tasks and had brains the size of a modern 2 year old.

4.

Homo erectus were first of our species to migrate from Africa, discover fire, and make clothing. Because of them this may have influenced why so many people use fire to cook and heat with.

5.

Homo sapiens are who we are today since 300,000 years ago of our evolution.

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The Neanderthals altruism probably inpired teamwork today. The advanced tools and death burrial practices are carried on as traditions aswell. They are believed to be the very first of us.

7.

Cro magnons begun art as self expression in Europe 40,000 years ago.

I personally feel that we were once homo habilis then homo erectus and kept evolving until we became who we are today. How we live and how they lived connect to reflect how we all got started.