First Peoples, First Farmers: Most of History in a Single Chapter, To 4000 B.C.E.

STEP THREE

Visual Sources as Historical Evidence

This exercise will help you to understand how historians use visual images to interpret the past before written history.

Begin by examining the image entitled “Domestication of Animals.”
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Next consider these images and answer the questions that follow: Paleolithic Art; Australian Rock Art; Lascaux Rock Art, Visual Source 1.1.
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