What do the artifacts tell us about the lives of early humans?

The artifact my group had to work on is a very interesting cave painting in Argentina. This cave painting has a lot of different objects and shapes in it. One of the things we noticed is that the acoustic inside the cave is particularly strong and loud at the exact location of the painting. That tells you that the early humans  probably held some celebrations and festivals while combining sound and the painting. Another interesting idea my group and I share is that the hand prints in this painting symbolize children when they reached a specific age or did something memorable.
                  
Artifacts in general show us that early humans had no other way of showing us their culture and their traditions but by painting on cave walls.  For example the cave painting in Lascaux, France tells you that many early humans lost their lives while hunting wild animals.We suppose that this scene expresses a big part of their lives as they had to constantly hunt in order to survive.  They also tell us what type of material and what type of tools they used to hunt and kill animals. Even pots from that period of time were found leading us to believe that the meat was cooked and not eaten raw. They also used shells as jewelry. Scientists think more and more that they already had an organized society. Artifacts can give us a hint to how people survived in the early human time zone, and it surprises me to find certain similarities between them and the modern day humans.
              
What fascinates me most is that the early humans had the ability and the tools to pass on their traditions and lifestyles even until today. Artifacts will always be around and probably people in the far future will admire our tools and the artifacts we have left behind as a certain generation. So all in all I think artifacts are a great source to cite the past.

This is my groups artifact. In Argentina.

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Thank You
Melina