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Master of Life in the Paleolithic
renaissanceman Paleolithic Music and Art
Make it ring, make it ring / Hear the hollow vulture bone sing.
renaissanceman Paleolithic musicians carved delicate flutes from bird bones and mammoth tusks, filling caves with complex melodies.
renaissanceman Match cave doodles and beats to discover how Paleolithic people expressed their daily lives.
Stone Age spray paint: Cave artists created hand stencils by placing their hand on a wall and blowing liquid pigment through a hollow bone tube.
A prehistoric painting or drawing on the wall or ceiling of a cave. In 1940, explorers discovered spectacular Upper Paleolithic examples in France's Lascaux cave dating back 17,000 years.
What did Paleolithic artists burn in stone lamps to light up pitch-black cave chambers?
What material, besides bird bones, was frequently used to carve Paleolithic flutes?
What natural clay pigment, representing blood and life, was sprinkled over Paleolithic graves?
What is the name of the famous 25,000-year-old female figurine discovered in Austria?
What did archeologists find in the 30,000-year-old graves at the Sungir site in Russia?