{"id":7031,"date":"2015-12-07T14:25:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-07T21:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7031"},"modified":"2015-12-08T14:30:54","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T21:30:54","slug":"mans-earliest-architecture-plans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2015\/12\/07\/mans-earliest-architecture-plans\/","title":{"rendered":"Man&#8217;s Earliest Architecture Plans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/archaeology\/prehistoric-rock-carvings-were-humanitys-first-ever-architectural-plans-a6759361.html\" target=\"_blank\">from The Independent<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Prehistoric rock carvings &#8216;were humanity&#8217;s earliest architectural plans&#8217;<\/h1>\n<p><em>Researchers say 14,000-year-old carvings by &#8216;Paleolithic Picasso&#8217;\u00a0depict a campsite built by early hunter-gatherers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>by\u00a0<a title=\"Cahal Milmo\" href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/author\/cahal-milmo\" target=\"_blank\">Cahal Milmo<\/a>\u00a0| Chief Reporter |\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/cahalmilmo\" target=\"_blank\">@cahalmilmo<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/static.independent.co.uk\/s3fs-public\/styles\/story_large\/public\/thumbnails\/image\/2015\/12\/03\/20\/21-Hunter-Gatherer-Campsite-Paul-Bellsham.jpg\" alt=\"A digital reconstruction of the Moli del Salt campsite built by hunter-gatherers\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>A\u00a0reconstruction of the Moli del Salt campsite built by hunter-gatherers<\/em><\/p>\n<p>On a Spanish river bank 14,000 years ago, someone carved seven semi-circular shapes on a rock. Whether the artist realised the significance of the work is unknown \u2013 but, according to archaeologists, the resulting doodle could well be humanity\u2019s first architectural drawing.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers have put forward evidence that the granite slab discovered on a prehistoric site near Barcelona carries a depiction of a campsite built by early hunter-gatherers as they roamed the Iberian peninsula in search of prey.<\/p>\n<p>If the picture is of semi-circular huts, it is likely to have been the work of a Paleolithic rule-breaker who shook up the artistic orthodoxy of the day in much the same way as that other, much later Spanish iconoclast, Pablo Picasso.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/science\/archaeology\/prehistoric-rock-carvings-were-humanitys-first-ever-architectural-plans-a6759361.html\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at The Independent<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from The Independent Prehistoric rock carvings &#8216;were humanity&#8217;s earliest architectural plans&#8217; Researchers say 14,000-year-old carvings by &#8216;Paleolithic Picasso&#8217;\u00a0depict a campsite built by early hunter-gatherers by\u00a0Cahal Milmo\u00a0| Chief Reporter |\u00a0@cahalmilmo A\u00a0reconstruction of the Moli del Salt campsite built by hunter-gatherers On a Spanish river bank 14,000 years ago, someone carved seven semi-circular shapes on a rock. [&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":[3,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art","category-weirdness"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031","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=7031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7031\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}