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Evidence Hunting
They may not have been able to write
in words, but the people of the Stone
Age show us where they were in lots
of different ways.
They drew amazing cave paintings, like the ones shown
here. This is the mammoth painting from the story,
that Osha’s grandfather painted.
Of course, we don’t really know who actually painted
it, or why. Maybe it was like in the story in celebration
of a hunt? Or maybe it was for another reason?
Anthropologists have been able to find One of the reasons I chose this cave
out that these “finger flutings” were painting to write about was the many
made by a child and provide proof that questions it got me asking:
children made cave art too, just like Who painted it?
Osha! Why did they paint it?
How did they paint it?
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