After Class: Day One 2/4/09

1. Name of topic we looked at this session, dealing with history: Cave drawings, how difficult it had to have been to communicate, how they were able to use color, what was the sources of some of the colors.

2. What is the most useful or meaningful thing you learned today (from class Wednesday)?
The clay exercise was very helpful today, because it showed how hard it is to communicate without color, how hard it is to show what you are trying to say exactly, and how hard it is to show a certain place or certain person (proper nouns).

3. State at least one question you have after the class. (if you state none here, you’d better have more detail done above to offset the work.)
How can historians today know exactly what was trying to be depicted in cave drawings? How many cave drawings (estimated guess) were lost due to bad conditions when historians found them? What is the oldest know cave drawing? What other cultures/regions have cave paintings?