Practice question · Sort into groups
Sort each claim about cave art: supported or not supported by the evidence?
Groups: Supported · Not supported
- A straightforward record of the daily diet
- Required artificial light and planning to produce
- Technically sophisticated from its earliest known examples
- Made exclusively by men
- Painted deep underground, away from living areas
Hints
- Strip away the claims the evidence cannot carry.
- What remains is deliberate, remote and technically accomplished work.
Show the answer
Supported: Painted deep underground, away from living areas, Technically sophisticated from its earliest known examples, Required artificial light and planning to produce
Not supported: A straightforward record of the daily diet, Made exclusively by men
Why
Strip away what the record does not support and what remains is stranger and better: deliberate, remote, technically brilliant work by mixed groups, about animals they largely did not eat.
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