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DirectionsPart 1: Answer the following questions, 100 words each1. Who should get to see Lascaux Cave? Grotte Chauvet? Do you agree that sealing off the cave is the most effective way to preserve it? Should some of the public be allowed inside? Who gets to see these caves and who should decide? With a classmate(s), please debate the advantages both of sealing out and of permitting in non-archaeologists.2. What is an artifact? Is the rock from Lascaux an artifact? Should McCorriston have taken the rock? Should she return it?3. How do we know what the Höhle Fels flute sounded like? Can you think of another way we could use this scientific technique to understand the past?Additional ResourcesTake a virtual tour of the Grotte Lascaux IIlascaux caves virtual tour (Links to an external site.)