{"id":1498,"date":"2006-08-08T22:36:47","date_gmt":"2006-08-08T22:36:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1498"},"modified":"2006-08-08T22:36:47","modified_gmt":"2006-08-08T22:36:47","slug":"the-bradshaw-paintings-pre-aboriginal-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1498","title":{"rendered":"The Bradshaw paintings: pre-Aboriginal art?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow the rows and the mystery seem inevitable &#8211; there are some <a href = \"http:\/\/www.bradshawfoundation.com\/bradshaws\/\">absolutely gorgeous<\/a> rock paintings in a remote, inaccessible part of Australia that might date back 60,000 years, and might be by a pre-Aboriginal people.<\/p>\n<p>The Times Literary Supplement has sent Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whoever they might be, on the trail, and aside from showing an unfortunate line in gullibility &#8212; (&#8220;It teems with poisonous snakes and spiders, as well as crocodiles and mad wild bulls.&#8221; &#8211; no if they were &#8220;mad&#8221; they wouldn&#8217;t survive very long in the Bush ) &#8212; the writer provides a <a href = \"http:\/\/www.tls.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,25338-2286453,00.html\">decent account of the controversy<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think the &#8220;cradle of global culture&#8221; makes much sense &#8211; it is indeed never really explained &#8211; presumably there would be some trail out, some signs of artistic influence, were that the case &#8211; but that doesn&#8217;t make the paintings and their possibilities any less exciting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Somehow the rows and the mystery seem inevitable &#8211; there are some absolutely gorgeous rock paintings in a remote, inaccessible part of Australia that might date back 60,000 years, and might be by a pre-Aboriginal people. The Times Literary Supplement has sent Robin Hanbury-Tenison, whoever they might be, on the trail, and aside from showing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1498"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1498\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}