![]() ![]() The city of Perigueux is the ‘Prefecture’ of the Dordogne and this department roughly corresponds to the old county of Perigord. ![]() It is part of the large region officially established in 2016 called Nouvelle Aquitaine of which Bordeaux is the capital. The Dordogne is a ‘Department’ of south-western France inland from the Atlantic Coast. The dreams from 1974 lingered and this trip was as good as I thought it would be. These memories were still with me when I discovered myself discussing a trip to France many years later in a new millennium and of course I knew I had to go to see the Lascaux Caves in the Dordogne Region. I also recall that I used in these lessons photos of cave paintings from a book about the Lascaux Caves in France they looked a lot more useful than my Australopithecus skull. I’m not sure how the plaster skull went down as a teaching tool but it sat on my home study desk for many years before I think it was quietly thrown into the dustbin of history. ![]() For no recalled reason, I decided I would start with the evolution of humanity and I was convinced that if I made a plaster copy of an ‘Australopithecus’ skull, this would be vital in explaining these human evolutionary concepts. The first topic must have been called something like ‘Primitive Mankind’ as I was meant to cover prehistory concepts and Stone Age Man. One of the classes I was down for on the Monday was a Year 8 Social Science Class. I have a strong memory of the weekend before I started teaching in 1974 at Ulladulla High School in NSW of returning to my parent’s home and preparing lessons for the week ahead. ![]()
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