Heptathlon consisting of the same events as the men's competition in a slightly different order, and the IAAF has begun keeping records for it, but the heptathlon remains the championship-level combined event for women. Nafissatou Thiam, representing Belgium, is the 2016 Olympic Gold Medallist and the 2017 World Champion. There is also a Tetradecathlon, which is a double heptathlon, consisting of 14 events, seven events per day. The heptathlon scoring system was devised by Dr Karl Ulbrich, a Viennese mathematician. The formulae are constructed so that, for each event, a designated "standard" performance (for example, approximately 1.82 m for the high
How Art Made the World Spivey after watching a shamanistic ritual performed by their present-day descendents in a village near Tsumkwe, Namibia far from the mountains. Lewis-Williams theorises that, "the paintings were not just pictures of everyday life, but they were about spiritual experiences in a trance state." Released on Region 2 DVD by BBC DVD on 30 May 2005. The 2005 companion book to the series was written by presenter Nigel Spivey. How Art Made the World How Art Made The World is a 2005 five-part BBC One documentary series, with each episode looking at the influence of art on the current day situation