At the beginning of "Becoming Us", Alan Alda shows us the spectacular paintings and carvings in the caves and rock shelters of the Dordogne region of France that date back 30,000 years. Who produced this artwork? Was it produced by the Neandertals that lived in this area 30,000 years ago, or someone else?

The spectacular paintings and carvings in the caves and rock shelters of the Dordogne region of France that date back 30,000 years were not produced by the Neandertals that lived in this area 30,000 years ago. They were made by relative newcomers to the region.

Explanation:

Alan discovers that the Neandertals certainly produced no art, and employed a stone tool technology that changed little over millennia. The people who painted the caves were strikingly different, possessed of what we are calling the Human Spark, capable not only of art but of innovative technology and symbolic communication.

when studying cause and effect, historians usually group the causes into different categories. for example, cultural causes reflect how a society’s literature and art convey the way the society saw itself in relation to the rest of the world. another resource that historians use to understand society is pop culture, which tells them the trends and ideas that are preferred by the common people. when studying cause and effect, it’s important to remember multiple causation, or the idea that an effect could have several causes and vice versa.  

the correct option is “cultural causes” since art and literature are related to the culture of a place. culture is determined by literature, art, music.

the correct option is “pop culture” since it reflects the likes and ideas of common people whereas the rest of the options do not focus on common people.  

the correct option is “multiple causation” since it refers to the idea that events are caused by multiple reasons, not just a single one.  

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