{"id":7170,"date":"2016-01-16T12:01:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T19:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/BigJimIndustries.com\/wordpress\/?p=7170"},"modified":"2016-01-24T12:06:56","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T19:06:56","slug":"chauvet-explained","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/2016\/01\/16\/chauvet-explained\/","title":{"rendered":"Chauvet Explained"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/chauvet-cave-paintings-404753\" target=\"_blank\">from artnet news<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<h1>Scientists Unlock the Mystery of Chauvet Caves Paintings in France<\/h1>\n<p>by Henri Neuendorf<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/wp-content\/news-upload\/2016\/01\/chauvet-cave-painting-1024x684.jpg\" alt=\"The abstract red daubs were previously thought to be abstract paintings. Photo: JEFF PACHOUD\/AFP\/Getty Images\" width=\"480\" height=\"auto\" \/><em>The abstract red daubs were previously thought to be abstract paintings.\u00a0Photo: JEFF PACHOUD\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following a new discovery, the abstract details\u00a0in France&#8217;s Chauvet Caves paintings, created by early humans 36,000 years ago, are thought to depict a volcanic eruption, scientists say.<\/p>\n<p>Although the paintings were discovered back in 1994, a recent geological survey conducted in the Bas-Vivarais region in France, where the cave is located, has led to a new interpretation of the paintings.<\/p>\n<p>Scientists discovered that a volcanic eruption took place in Bas-Vivarais at around the same time as the paintings were created between 30,000 and 40,000 years ago.<\/p>\n<p>The findings give\u00a0new significance to the abstract daubs of red and white pigment which were found next to figurative\u00a0depictions of lions, woolly mammoths, and other animals, and provide new insights into the level of understanding that early humans had of\u00a0their surroundings.<\/p>\n<p>[ <a href=\"https:\/\/news.artnet.com\/art-world\/chauvet-cave-paintings-404753\" target=\"_blank\">click to continue reading at artnet<\/a> ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>from artnet news Scientists Unlock the Mystery of Chauvet Caves Paintings in France by Henri Neuendorf The abstract red daubs were previously thought to be abstract paintings.\u00a0Photo: JEFF PACHOUD\/AFP\/Getty Images Following a new discovery, the abstract details\u00a0in France&#8217;s Chauvet Caves paintings, created by early humans 36,000 years ago, are thought to depict a volcanic eruption, [&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-7170","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-art"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170","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=7170"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7170\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7170"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7170"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bigjimindustries.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7170"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}