11. The Cro-Magnons lived from about 40,000 to
10,000 years ago in the Upper Paleolithic period of the Pleistocene epoch.
22. The most common themes in cave painting are
large wild animals like, bison, horses, aurochs, and deer, and tracings of
human hands as well as abstract patterns, called Macaroni by Breuil.
33. They were drawn with red and yellow achre,
hematite, manganese oxide and charcoal.
44. These images probably had deep cultural and
religious significance for the societies that created them; in many cases this significance
remains for their descendants.
