Instructional Video12:24
SciShow

These Five Caves Changed What We Know About Ourselves

12th - Higher Ed
Humans love to decorate, and that's been true for a long time. Early humans have been painting on the walls for tens of thousand of years, and their work helped us understand a lot about their world and our own. From Lascaux Cave in...
Instructional Video9:43
PBS

How Ancient Art Captured Australian Megafauna

12th - Higher Ed
Beneath layers of rock art are drawings of animals SO strange that, for a long time, some anthropologists thought they could only have been imagined. But what if these animals really had existed, after all?
Instructional Video7:50
PBS

When the Sahara Was Green

12th - Higher Ed
The climate of the Sahara was completely different thousands of years ago. And we’re not talking about just a few years of extra rain. We’re talking about a climate that was so wet for so long that animals and humans alike made...
Instructional Video6:17
SciShow

Origins of Intolerance

12th - Higher Ed
Hank's news this week informs us on a couple of crazy science experiments, updates us on some earlier topics (dangerous asteroids and ancient phallic rock art), and briefs us on a new study that seeks to find the evolutionary origins of...
Instructional Video2:36
Curated Video

Warty Pig Is The Oldest Animal Cave Art

6th - Higher Ed
A 45,500-year-old warty pig drawing is the oldest known cave painting of an animal on record. The piggies were painted in Indonesian caves.
Instructional Video6:53
Wonderscape

The Origins of Symbolic Art: From Stone Tools to Cave Paintings

K - 5th
Trace the evolution of art from the first stone tools to the emergence of symbolic cave paintings during the Upper Paleolithic Era. Discover how early humans developed the ability to represent their world through carvings, handprints,...
Instructional Video3:00
Curated Video

The History, Mechanics, and Sport of the Boomerang

Pre-K - Higher Ed
Trace the boomerang back to its origins as a hunting weapon used by indigenous Australians thousands of years ago to its evolution into a sport and form of entertainment. Discover how the unique construction and spin of a boomerang...
Instructional Video23:55
Australian Children's Television Foundation

Bushwhacked! - Series 1 - Episode 8 (Saltwater Croc)

9th - 12th
Brandon challenges Kayne to catch a Saltwater Croc and attach a satellite tag to it to help rangers keep the local community safe.
News Clip2:41
Curated Video

SOUTH AFRICA: VALUABLE ROCK ART COLLECTION TO BE HELD BY MUSEUM

Higher Ed
English/Nat

One of the most valuable collections of rock art in the world is to be presented on Thursday to the University of the Witwatersrand for safe-keep
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The J-D...
Audio
Science Friday Initiative

Science Friday: Archaic Texan Rock Art Reveals Prehistoric Culture

9th - 10th
The arid Texas climate preserved rock art painted by early Native American groups.