Russell Hawley, Tate Geological Museum Education Specialist and renowned paleo artist, presented “Paint Like a Caveman: The Techniques and Science Behind Ice Age Artwork” on Tuesday, February 20th, 2024 as part of the Casper College Humanities Festival. Woolly mammoths and cave bears have been extinct for millennia, but there are several lines of evidence that allow artists to depict these creatures with a surprising degree of accuracy. Discoveries of fossil skeletons, some of them nearly complete, permit reconstruction of the animal using the principles of comparative anatomy, while evidence from frozen carcasses and cave paintings allow paleo artists to construct a vivid and detailed picture of animal life during the ice age.