They based their theory of a "creative explosion" on evidence like the magnificent cave paintings in Lascaux and Chauvet.

Boomers of the 1960s lived through a decade of turmoil, creative explosion and youthful hope for the world.

And these possibilities were opened up by the creative explosion of postwar Japan.

While the first fostered a creative explosion, the second gave birth to an industry of how-to books and classes.

Jazz, as played by young musicians in New York City, now seems to be on the cusp of a creative explosion.

The next gallery contains work that came from the creative explosion that followed, in the 1950's and 60's.

Some come from the world of furniture design, where a creative explosion has yielded results ranging from the exquisite to the outrageous.

The best thing about jazz in 1963, after all, was the creative explosion that lay just ahead.

In Cristina Scabbia's own words, "[during the album's recording], we had a sort of creative explosion.

If correct, these findings will contribute to the growing body of evidence that the "creative explosion" occurred tens of thousands of years earlier than scholars once thought.