Rock Art Trivia
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- Ten questions, generated fresh from the atlas every round
- Photos, countries, ages, techniques — every answer is a fact from a real site
- Each answer links to the page where you can check it
About this quiz
Rock art is the oldest art there is, and most of it is hard to see in person — sealed for conservation, or a long way down a track in the Sahara. A quiz is a way of visiting it anyway. Each round draws ten questions from the atlas's 183 catalogued sites, spread across six continents and roughly 66,000 years of image-making, from the ochre hand stencils of Sulawesi to Bronze Age ships pecked into Swedish granite.
The questions are generated from the catalogue rather than written by hand, so they change every round and never run out. They ask what you would ask standing in front of the art: which country a site is in, roughly how old its paintings are, which animals appear on its walls, how the pigment was put there, and how anyone knows the date. Two sites can also be set against each other — which art is older — because a sense of the timescale is harder to build than a list of facts.
Every answer is a field on a real record, and every answer screen links to the page it came from, so a fact you doubt is one click from its citation. Nothing here is scored against a clock: the point is the sentence you read after you answer, not how fast you clicked.
Example questions
These are the kinds of question a round draws, shown here with their answers. In the game the four options are shuffled and the sites change every time.
In which country is Lascaux Cave?
France
Roughly how old is the art at Chauvet-Pont d'Arc?
The Aurignacian — ~36,000 yrs
How do we know the age of the art at Altamira Cave?
Uranium-series on calcite
How was the art at Cueva de las Manos made?
Hand stencil
Which art is older?
Chauvet-Pont d'Arc (~36,000 yrs)