{"id":697851,"date":"2021-08-02T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=697851"},"modified":"2021-08-02T15:00:01","modified_gmt":"2021-08-02T19:00:01","slug":"neanderthals-indeed-painted-andalusias-cueva-de-ardales","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=697851","title":{"rendered":"Neanderthals indeed painted Andalusia&#039;s Cueva de Ardales"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The origin and date of appearance of prehistoric cave art are the subjects of ongoing debate. Spain&#8217;s Cueva de Ardales is one point of discussion. There, a flowstone formation is stained red in places. This coloring is apparently almost 65,000 years old, but until now, some in the scientific community attributed it to a natural coating of iron oxide deposited by flowing water. However, that hypothesis has just been disproven by the findings of an international team of scientists including a CNRS researcher.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2021-08-neanderthals-andalusia-cueva-de-ardales.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Neanderthals indeed painted Andalusia&#8217;s Cueva de Ardales<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The origin and date of appearance of prehistoric cave art are the subjects of ongoing debate. Spain&#8217;s Cueva de Ardales is one point of discussion. There, a flowstone formation is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697851","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697851","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=697851"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697851\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=697851"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=697851"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=697851"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}