Grade 5 Study Guide Social Sciences History

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Study Guide

Lesson 4 Information from rock paintings

Define Rock art: drawings or images made on rocks Core content We can obtain information about the hunter-gatherers and shepherds from the Later Stone Age by looking at the rock paintings they made. Rock paintings were their means of

communication and by studying these images we can learn something about how they lived.

Study the pictures below:

Image 1.7: The San made various rock art paintings across Southern Africa.

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