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

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• 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 BearThe 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 lightingCro-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• 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.