What do the artifacts tell us about the lives of early humans?

    My group's artifact was found in Lascaux, France. It consisted of horses and bison, and displayed a scene with a larger bison above all the other animals. The artifact we got was a part of the legendary cave painting The Hall of the Bulls. Scientists have come up with many reasons why such a painting was created, here are three of those reasons. One of them is that the artist believed in spirits and created the paintings to honor them. Another reason is that the artist tried to capture the "magical powers" of certain animals. The last reason is that the painting was used as the background to ceremonies and rituals or as a place of worship. These are all interesting theories that helps us uncover the mysteries of history. This cave painting was made about 17,000 years ago and scientist have found out so much about it. 
     Artifacts can tell us so much about the people who have lived before us, what they used to eat, how they used to hunt and so many other things. Spears prove how they used to hunt and bones of hominids, like Lucy, tell us about how much we have developed. The usual stereo type of an early human is stupid, dumb, idiotic... right? Well social scientists have proved us wrong.  Imagine how creative you would have to be to create a painting on a cave, imagine how intelligent you would have to be to get the tools and create a paint that would stay on the walls if the cave for 17,000 years. Could you do that? Most probably no.
    In the future, our clothes, our possessions, even our bones will be considered artifacts. Imagine 200 years from now, students will be sitting in a classroom, or whatever they learn in then, learning about us. We call the early humans hominids, what do you think they will call us?


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- Kamilla:D

Lucy the hominid's bones