{"id":11117,"date":"2020-12-03T15:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T22:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=11117"},"modified":"2020-12-18T15:03:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-18T22:03:45","slug":"ancient-bungee-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2020\/12\/03\/ancient-bungee-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient Bungee Art"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/more-images-amazon-rock-art-1928138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">from artnet<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More Photos Have Emerged from the Massive Rock Art Discovery in the Amazon, and They\u2019re Amazing\u2014See Them Here<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<p>Who knew that ancient Amazonians bungee jumped? Well, now you do!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/about\/brian-boucher-244\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">by Brian Boucher<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/app\/news-upload\/2020\/12\/amazon-with-team-member-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A member of the Colombian-English research team that made the discovery. Photo Jos\u00e9 Iriarte.\" title=\"A member of the Colombian-English research team that made the discovery. Photo Jos\u00e9 Iriarte.\"\/><figcaption><em>A member of the Colombian-English research team that made the discovery. Photo: Jos\u00e9 Iriarte.<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Archaeologists&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/colombian-amazon-ice-age-rock-paintings-1927407\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">recently discovered<\/a>&nbsp;eight miles of painted rock face in the Colombian Amazon, sited along the Guayabero River. The Colombian and English researchers studying the works suspect that there could be upward of 100,000 individual paintings on 17 walls, dating from the time when humans first arrived in South America and then traveled through Central America.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The thousands of paintings, made by people who lived there 12,500 years ago, have captivated viewers the world over. Now, Artnet News has obtained more photographs of the giant sloths, armadillos the size of a car, and countless other animals, as well as humans dancing, engaging in ceremonies, and even bungee jumping.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/more-images-amazon-rock-art-1928138\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet More Photos Have Emerged from the Massive Rock Art Discovery in the Amazon, and They\u2019re Amazing\u2014See Them Here Who knew that ancient Amazonians bungee jumped? Well, now you do! by Brian Boucher Archaeologists&nbsp;recently discovered&nbsp;eight miles of painted rock face in the Colombian Amazon, sited along the Guayabero River. The Colombian and English researchers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":26,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/26"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11117\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}