What was music like during the Stone Age? Learners listen to a CD entitled, Art of Primitive Sound as they consider the culture of people in the Stone Age. They use objects found in nature to create instruments, and then...

Students explore how people in earlier times used art as a way to record stories and communicate ideas by studying paintings from the Cave of Lascaux and other caves in France. Three lessons on one page.

Students explore prehistoric times by completing web activities in class. In this human ancestry instructional activity, students identify the archaeological discovery of the "Lucy" skeleton and what it meant for science. Students...

This is a handy study guide for key points about prehistoric times, specifically art during this period. Includes definitions and a specific details about each continent during this period.

The PBS series, titled "How Art Made the World," takes a look at the discovery of prehistoric paintings in a cave at Altamira in northern Spain. With excellent close-ups of the paintings and two video clips that help to explain the...

This fascinating and unique prehistoric sculpture of a dog-like animal was discovered accidentally in 1870 in Tequixquiac, Mexicocan. Anthropologists are not certain of this object's original meaning for either the artist or the people...

Personal ornamentation and engraved designs are the earliest evidence of art in Africa and are inextricably tied up with the development of human cognition. View pictures and read about prehistoric art in Africa.

Algeria hosts a rich rock art concentration. The most renowned of all these areas is the Tassili n'Ajjer described as "forests of stone". View pictures and read a brief history of rock art in Africa.

Archaeologists get very excited when they find pieces of Lapita pottery. Why? Because the sequential depositing of potsherds (fragments of pottery) in an easterly direction across the island groups of the Pacific has become the pivotal...

Who was the Running Horned Woman? For so long the search for meaning in rock art was considered impossible-only recently have scholars endeavored to move beyond the mere description of images and styles using a variety of...