Chauvet Cave

High school (ages 12+)
History & Culture

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Step 1 · Read the article

Open the article and read it at the level above. Then answer the questions below in your own words.

https://smallwhale.org/articles/chauvet-cave

Write what each word means, using the article.

Do not copy the article. Write two things you learned, the way you would explain them to a friend.

Answers below are taken from the article’s stored facts, so they match what the student read.

1. Who discovered Chauvet Cave?December 18, 1994
2. What is the discoverers?Eliette Brunel-Deschamps, Christian Hillaire, and Jean-Marie Chauvet
3. What is the UNESCO world heritage designation?June 22, 2014
4. Why are the paintings in Chauvet Cave special?The paintings are special because they show advanced artistic techniques like shading, perspective, and realistic detail, which were made by people much earlier than we once thought.
5. What animals are drawn in Chauvet Cave?The cave contains drawings of powerful animals such as cave lions, rhinoceroses, mammoths, and horses, many of which are now extinct.

Aurignacian Period: An early Upper Paleolithic culture characterized by advanced stone tools and the emergence of sophisticated art and symbolic behavior.
Paleoanthropology: The study of the fossil and archaeological record of ancient humans and their ancestors.
Radiocarbon Dating: A scientific method used to determine the age of organic materials by measuring the decay of radioactive carbon isotopes.