Question
In 2022, amateur archaeologist Ben Bacon published a paper arguing that dots and lines in these artworks represented animal lifespans. For 10 points each:
[10m] Name these artworks that include finger flutings and blown-paint outlines of hands. Four French teenagers discovered some of these artworks in 1940.
ANSWER: cave paintings [or cave art: or cave drawings; prompt on painting by asking “Painted where?”; prompt on caves or cave walls by asking “What is in the cave?”; prompt on rock art]
[10e] Bacon argued that the letter “Y” symbolized this activity for animals. This process became more difficult for human women as the pelvis changed shape to account for walking upright.
ANSWER: childbirth [accept word forms such as giving birth; accept descriptions like having a child; accept delivering a child; prompt on labor; prompt on delivery]
[10h] The paper also studied this cave discovered by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola’s eight-year-old daughter María. This cave in Northern Spain was the first to which prehistoric artists were attributed.
ANSWER: Altamira [or the Cave of Altamira]
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Summary
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 4 | 17.50 | 100% | 75% | 0% |
| 2023 PACE NSC | 06/10/2023 | Y | 1 | 20.00 | 100% | 100% | 0% |
Data
| Belmont | Hunter A | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Mira Loma | Thomas Jefferson C | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| Winston Churchill A | St. Mark's | 0 | 10 | 0 | 10 |
| Kinkaid | Troy | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |
| University Lab | Dallas County | 10 | 10 | 0 | 20 |