How Art Made the World' Episode 2: The Day Pictures Were Born Quiz

The Creative Explosion, in which early humans began creating the first images began _____ years ago.

35000

The need to create images was so powerful that is brought about the greatest transformation in human history. What was that transformation?

Agriculture and Farming

Paintings of prehistoric animals discovered in the caves of ______________were extremely important because it was the first time that prehistoric paintings had been found that were executed with such a high degree of skill

Altamira

What is Gobekli Tepi?

An early religious site much like Stonehenge

The amateur archaeologist ___________________ visited the caves of Altamira

Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola

Who said, upon viewing the cave paintings in Lascaux, "We have learned nothing" ?

Pablo Picasso

The Bushman were also known as the ___________________

San

In the 1800s, __________________________________________ discovered that some Bushmen were still living and began to collect their stories.

Wilhelm Blake

Professor Lewis Williams concluded that the Bushmen's drawings were a recreation of the ________________________________ experienced in the their religious rituals.

hallucinations

The paintings discovered by Marcelino Sanz de Sautuola were called a __________________ by other archaeologists because they seemed to be too good.

hoax

For those who have never seen a picture it would look like a collection of lines and colors without _______________________________.

meaning

Prehistoric artists were not copying _____________________ but were reproducing visions from inside their heads

nature

Most of the paintings in the Altamira caves were of oryx which is an extinct species of _________________

ox

The ability to see and interpret images is essential and without it, our world would be ________________________________

unrecognizable

When two little information is given to the human _____________________ system, it causes hallucinations.

visual