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Content Area 1: Global Prehistory (30,000 to 500 BCE)

6 dot points across 6 inquiry questions. Click any dot point for a focused answer with worked past exam questions where available.

What can painted images of animals and figures on rock surfaces reveal about the minds and lives of their makers?

What can art made before writing tell us about how the earliest human societies understood their world?

What did prehistoric people make small enough to hold, and what do those carved and modelled objects tell us about belief, the body, and the dead?

Why did prehistoric people move enormous stones to build monuments, and what does Stonehenge tell us about their world?

How did the shift from hunting to farming reshape where people lived and the art and architecture they made?

How do you build a disciplined visual analysis of a work you have never seen, using only what is in front of you?