MMW 11 Study Guide - Final Guide: Acheulean, Cave Bear, Cave Painting
7 Dec 2016
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You happen to be along when a remarkable cave art site is found by one of her high school students a few miles to the south. It has painted murals portraying horses, deer, aurochs, and other animals. The paintings are in clear archaeological association with. Although no human remains are found in the cave, testing on one of the cave bear skulls provides a date of 45,000 5,000 years ago. At that time there was an increase in artifacts+art in the archaelogical record. Migration spread to europe (as suggested in the question-france: horses, deers, and aurochs were the most common subjects in cave paintings at that time. Common hunting target: the mousterian toolkit, which followed the acheulean toolkit, is closely associated in europe with the remains of homo neanderthalensis, although. Mousterian tools have also been found in homo sapiens sites of the same period, and late neanderthals have occasionally been found with post-
