IELTS Listening Practice Test

Rock Art

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Rock art
Why rock art is important to researchers
It provides evidence about
  • evolution

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Global similarities in rock art
  • humans often had large 2

    
    .

  • animals were common, but a3

    
    was always drawn from the side or from above.

  • unlikely that contact through 4

    
    resulted in similar artistic styles.

Why our ancestors produced rock art
Research suggests rock art was produced
  • firstly for reasons of 5

    
    .

  • later for social, spiritual and 6

    
    reasons.

What TWO images drawn by Aboriginal people show their contact with Europeans?
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Which human activities does the lecturer say are the main threats to Aboriginal rock art?
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• vandalism
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