{"id":472,"date":"2014-11-04T14:00:29","date_gmt":"2014-11-04T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/?p=472"},"modified":"2014-11-05T12:12:12","modified_gmt":"2014-11-05T17:12:12","slug":"creativity-breadcrumb-31-advances-in-art-science-and-history-through-the-discovery-of-39000-year-old-cave-paintings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/11\/04\/creativity-breadcrumb-31-advances-in-art-science-and-history-through-the-discovery-of-39000-year-old-cave-paintings\/","title":{"rendered":"Creativity Breadcrumb 29: Advances in Art, Science, and History Through the Discovery of 39,000 Year-Old Cave Paintings"},"content":{"rendered":"<script>fsg_json['fsg_post_472'] = [\n{id: 474, image: 'http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/indonesian-cave-art-old-01_84472_990x742.jpg', extlink: '', thumb: 'https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/indonesian-cave-art-old-01_84472_990x742-290x290.jpg', permalink: '<div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/11\/04\/creativity-breadcrumb-31-advances-in-art-science-and-history-through-the-discovery-of-39000-year-old-cave-paintings\/indonesian-cave-art-old-01_84472_990x742\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div>', layer: '<div class=\"galleria-infolayer\"><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><h1>indonesian-cave-art-old-01_84472_990x742<\/h1><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\"><a title=\"Permalink\" href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/11\/04\/creativity-breadcrumb-31-advances-in-art-science-and-history-through-the-discovery-of-39000-year-old-cave-paintings\/indonesian-cave-art-old-01_84472_990x742\/#0\"><div class=\"galleria-link-bookmark\"><\/div><\/a><\/div><div class=\"galleria-layeritem\" style=\"padding-right: 20px;\"><\/div>'}\n];<\/script>\n<p><em>food for creative making, doing, and thinking<br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_474\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a data-postid=\"fsg_post_472\" data-imgid=\"474\" href=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/indonesian-cave-art-old-01_84472_990x742.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-474\" class=\"size-full wp-image-474\" src=\"http:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/indonesian-cave-art-old-01_84472_990x742.jpg\" alt=\"Photograph by Maxime Aubert, Griffith University, Australia Source: nationalgeographic.com\" width=\"990\" height=\"703\" srcset=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/indonesian-cave-art-old-01_84472_990x742.jpg 990w, https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/files\/2014\/10\/indonesian-cave-art-old-01_84472_990x742-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-474\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photograph by Maxime Aubert, Griffith University, Australia<br \/>Source: nationalgeographic.com<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #333333\">A groundbreaking discovery was recently made in the field of archeology, in which cave paintings dating back at least 39,900 years were found in a cave on the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.\u00a0The content of the paintings includes outlines of hands and paintings of an animal known as\u00a0a babirusa, or &#8220;pig-deer.&#8221; These paintings are considered to be among the oldest figure drawings in the world, opening the doors to a wide range of study oin the fields of\u00a0evolutionary science, archaeology, and art history.\u00a0Archaeologist Alistair Pike observes that\u00a0<span style=\"color: #333333\">&#8220;We&#8217;ve been shown here that our views have been too &#8216;Euro-centric&#8217; about the origins of cave painting. [&#8230;]\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\">Absolutely this changes our views, and is going to make us ask a lot of questions about the causes rather than the origins of cave art.&#8221; New ideas have now developed as to the universality of certain practices of art that can be observed from a historical as well as contemporary perspective. Pike claims that\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\">&#8220;making hand stencils seems a universal human practice&#8221; because hands are recurring images in caves around the world. Pike also points out how<\/span><span style=\"color: #333333\">\u00a0&#8220;Children love to make handprints, even today,&#8221; another clue pointing to the innate tendency for humans to focus on hands in the development of art.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"color: #333333\">To read more about this exciting discovery, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nationalgeographic.com\/news\/2014\/10\/141008-cave-art-sulawesi-hand-science\/\">National Geographic website<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>food for creative making, doing, and thinking &nbsp; A groundbreaking discovery was recently made in the field of archeology, in which cave paintings dating back at least 39,900 years were <a href=\"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/2014\/11\/04\/creativity-breadcrumb-31-advances-in-art-science-and-history-through-the-discovery-of-39000-year-old-cave-paintings\/\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"sr-only\">Read more about Creativity Breadcrumb 29: Advances in Art, Science, and History Through the Discovery of 39,000 Year-Old Cave Paintings<\/span>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3743,"featured_media":474,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-472","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3743"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":787,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472\/revisions\/787"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/474"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.vassar.edu\/creativearts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}