Transcript Sabertooth PP Karen G

ICE AGE
A period of time when much of the worlds
surfaces were covered with snow and ice.
Cro-Magnon People
*Hunted mainly with spears
*Cro-Magnons made tools from blades
of Flint stone, used for preparing
animal skins.
*Their art extended to Venus figures,
ritual statuettes of bone, and they
made outline cave wall drawings of
wooly rhinos, mammoths, cave lions
and cave bears.
*Cro-Magnon’s used colors like red,
black and brown from different types of
berries and other materials, like fire
coal.
Cave Dwelling
• http://www.lascaux.culture.fr/#/en/00.xml/in
dex3.html
• This video takes you inside an actual cave. You
can explore what it was like living in a cave in
the Ice Ages.
Cave drawing of a mammoth
Huts and Shelters were made out of mammoth bone and hides.
Cro-Magnons would hunt for large animals by digging large pits and
covering them with leaves and branches. When the animal walked
over the branches they would fall in and be trapped.
Large pit
Cave Bear
The Cave Bear (Ursus spelaeus) was a
species of bear which lived in Europe
during the Pleistocene and became
extinct at the beginning of the Last
Glacial Maximum about 27,500 years
ago. Both the name Cave Bear and the
scientific name spelaeus derive from
the fact that fossils of this species
were mostly found in caves, indicating
that this species spent more time in
caves than the Brown Bear, which only
uses caves for hibernation.
Consequently, in the course of time,
whole layers of bones, almost entirely
those of cave bears, were found in
many caves.
* It is believed the bears were mainly
herbivores but occasionally would eat
other animals . Meat was not its
primary source of food.
Bone Flute
Rope made out of plants
Stone axes and knives
Clothing made of Reindeer skin
Cro-Magnon lighting
Cro-Magnons had no electricity so they had to make their own candles .
To do this, they would use animal fat that they would pour into hollowed
out rocks and add a wick made out of moss to light the dark nights.
Some of the animals painted on cave walls
Master of the Animals
• Supernatural figure regarded
as the protector of game in
the traditions of foraging
peoples. The name was
devised by Western scholars
who have studied such
hunting and gathering
societies. In some traditions,
the master of the animals is
believed to be the ruler of the
forest and guardian of all
animals; in others, he is the
ruler of only one species,
usually a large animal of
economic or social importance
to the tribe.
Sabertooth
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Smilodon cats are also well known
because they're the sabertooth cats
that lived on Earth most recently.
They shared the planet with other
familiar ice-age mammals like woolly
mammoths, mastodons and ground
sloths. All these animals were extinct
by about 10,000 years ago due to a
number of factors, including climate
change, terrain change and human
hunting. The Smilodon cats most
likely became extinct because their
primary source of food -- mammals
that were larger than the cats
themselves -- died out. The cats
weren't fast or agile enough to catch
smaller prey, leading to their
eventual extinction.