{"id":15849,"date":"2018-09-13T07:13:40","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T02:13:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/?p=15849"},"modified":"2018-09-13T21:28:12","modified_gmt":"2018-09-13T16:28:12","slug":"oldest-known-drawing-by-human-hands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/oldest-known-drawing-by-human-hands\/","title":{"rendered":"Oldest known drawing by human hands&#8230;?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/12\/science\/oldest-drawing-ever-found.html?emc=edit_th_180913&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=552646610913\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15851\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/oldest_drawing_01.png\" alt=\"oldest_drawing_01\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/oldest_drawing_01.png 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/oldest_drawing_01-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/12\/science\/oldest-drawing-ever-found.html?emc=edit_th_180913&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=552646610913\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-15852\" src=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/oldest_drawing_02.png\" alt=\"oldest_drawing_02\" width=\"437\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/oldest_drawing_02.png 437w, https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/oldest_drawing_02-300x225.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>Blombos Cave (near Capetown), South Africa<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"css-18sbwfn StoryBodyCompanionColumn\">\n<div class=\"css-1h6whtw\">\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">&#8220;Nine red lines on a stone flake found in a South African cave may be the earliest known drawing made by Homo sapiens, archaeologists reported on Wednesday. The artifact, which scientists think is about 73,000 years old, predates the oldest previously known modern human abstract drawings from Europe <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/25\/science\/prehistoric-cave-paintings.html\">by about 30,000 years<\/a>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-1i0edl6 e2kc3sl0\">\u201cWe knew a lot of things Homo sapiens could do, but we didn\u2019t know they could do drawings back then,\u201d said <a class=\"css-1g7m0tk\" title=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.uib.no\/personer\/Christopher.Stuart.Henshilwood\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Christopher Henshilwood<\/a>, an archaeologist from the University of Bergen in Norway and lead author of the study&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #999999;\"><em>(full story <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/09\/12\/science\/oldest-drawing-ever-found.html?emc=edit_th_180913&amp;nl=todaysheadlines&amp;nlid=552646610913\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>, or <a style=\"color: #999999;\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41586-018-0514-3\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>)<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blombos Cave (near Capetown), South Africa &#8220;Nine red lines on a stone flake found in a South African cave may be the earliest known drawing made by Homo sapiens, archaeologists reported on Wednesday. The artifact, which scientists think is about 73,000 years old, predates the oldest previously known modern human abstract drawings from Europe by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,5,7,9,17,18],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15849"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15854,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15849\/revisions\/15854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertlpeters.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}