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Cave Painting & Rock Art

No one knows why Cro-Magnon man painted marvelous and

astonishing paintings on rock walls, deep within caves. Paintings were added, until a cave might have hundreds of different paintings, by many different painters. Most cave paintings focused on hunters and animals.

COLOR: Early man used natural colors. You may have heard that they used charcoal to create these paintings. Actually, most art was not made with charcoal, but rather with mineral pigments, such as iron oxide (red ochre) or black manganese.

They drew stick figures for people, but the animals were well drawn, and usually filled in with natural colors, to give them even more shape and substance.

DANGER: When you think cave, you might think of a big place, with

high ceilings.

Not so. In order to reach the places where cave paintings have been found, Cro-Magnon man had to crawl on his belly, through mazes of narrow, dark tunnels, by the light of a flicking torch or a spoon-like oil lamp (which had to be hand carried and balanced carefully to hold the burning oil in the rounded part of the spoon - while crawling along on your belly), and carrying the paints he had carefully prepared, with no idea if he might run into, oh .. a cave lion or a bear, on the way.

Certainly he wasn't decorating his home, as these marvelous paintings were hidden deep within the darkest portions of the cave.

The other thing found in cave paintings, besides stick figures of people and well drawn animals, are stencils of hands.

It would appear that Cro-Magnon man, after crawling on his belly and creating his addition to these cave walls of art, then put his hand against the cave wall, and outlined it with charcoal or paint.

What were they saying? (I was here? I made this?) Was this a way to sign their art? Or to prove they had achieved their ... mission? It's

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not easy to figure out because not all paintings include a stenciled handprint.

Why did early man seek out these caves, to add their paintings to the many others that had been painted in the cave before them? And why such dark, secret, hidden places? It might have been one of Cro-Magnon man's recreational activities. It might have had something to do with their religion or their rites of manhood. Nobody knows! It's a fascinating mystery.

Cave paintings let us learn about the lives of people long ago. People painted animals and even painted outlines of their hands.

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Read the text above and answer these questions:

- Why did cave men paint on rock walls?

- How many colors did they use?

- How did they get these colors?

- Did they have electric light in the caves? Then, how did they manage to see

inside the caves?

- What kind of pictures did they paint?

- Were there any differences between human bodies and animals depicted on

the cave walls?

- Why? Express your opinion

- What animals could they meet in the caves?

- Have you ever visited any caves with paintings? Where? What kind of

paintings were there?

- Are there any famous caves in Spain? Search the information.

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The Great Pyramid The Pyramid of Khufu

The Great Pyramid is the epitome of the knowledge and experience of all

previous pyramids.

The blocks used in the pyramid are large, with a commonly stated average of

2.5 tons. Many blocks are indeed smaller than this, the blocks toward the top

decrease in size.

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This is an example of an established guideline

Can you find some other examples?

Collect the information you need to make

an oral presentation. You can use Power

Point or posters to support it.

Try to relax- imagine you are talking to

a new friend.

Speak clearly and loudly enough for

your classmates to hear you.

Do not worry about making mistakes,

you will get marks for communicating

your ideas.

Eye-contact is important.

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EXAMPLES OF VIEWS OR PROJECTIONS IN ROMAN TIMES

Surf the Internet to search information about ‘The Colosseum’

and write a composition.

Give the composition a title.

Plan the writing. Organize it in paragraphs

one idea – one paragraph.

Involve the reader by asking questions.

Pay attention to the grammar and vocabulary

Use linkers to join sentences.

Do not write overlong sentences. Try to use

language which you are familiar with.

Make a draft and read through it in order to

correct possible mistakes.

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Self-assessment

What have you learnt?

Was this unit interesting?

The worst The best

Give yourself a mark

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While your classmate is presenting his/her work, listen carefully and

complete the following table

Team name

Accuracy/ Range

Communcation sklls

Pronunciation Task achievement

Mark …/20