How Art Made the World : The Day Pictures Were Born (2006)
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Synopsis
Nigel Spivey investigates images made during what anthropologists call the "creative explosion" 35,000 years ago. His journey takes him to Altamira, Spain, where the first prehistoric paintings were discovered. He compares them with rock art made by the San bushmen of southern Africa just a few hundred years ago; and to similar drawings by American Indians. Rock-art experts David Lewis Williams and David Whitley lend insight.