Wednesday, September 30, 2020

Thursday, September 17, 2020

Creating Paleolithic Art

 


Experiential Archaeology:
Creating Our Own Paleo Art
(All pictures can be downloaded from 8th Grade Announcements Page)

What can we learn from trying to replicate the experience of these artists?
1) How difficult is this process?
2) How long does it take? And what were they NOT doing when they were making this art?
3) What techniques work and which do not?
4) What materials work best?
5) How and where did they obtain their materials?
6) What bonding agents kept the paint on the rocks in Mrs. N.'s garden for 15 years?
7) Contemplating theories for why this was done


Wednesday, September 16, 2020

Paleolithic Cave Art


 SPELUNKING!

A Virtual Tour of 
Lascaux, Altamira, and Chavet Caves

With hard hats and passports we traveled to France and Spain where we ventured into these dark and dangerous caves to examine our first form of communication from ancient man!