{"id":529852,"date":"2026-03-11T20:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529852\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T20:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T20:24:09","slug":"news-direct-carbon-14-dates-obtained-for-paleolithic-artworks-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/529852\/","title":{"rendered":"News &#8211; Direct Carbon-14 Dates Obtained for Paleolithic Artworks in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"content-card__date\">\n\t\t\t\tDigs &amp; Discoveries \t\t\t\tMay\/June 2025 \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tRead Article\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"700\" height=\"439\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MJ25-Digs-France-Paleolithic-Landscape-Map-Alt-Featured.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   style=\"object-position:center center;\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy M\u00e9dard Thiry\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-card__date\">\n\t\t\t\tArtifacts \t\t\t\tMay\/June 2021 \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tRead Article\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MJ21-Artifact-France-Shell-Instrument-Alt-Featured.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   style=\"object-position:center center;\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t(Courtesy Carole Fritz et al. 2021\/CNRS \u2013 the French National Centre for Scientific Research)\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-card__date\">\n\t\t\t\tArtifacts \t\t\t\tMarch\/April 2020 \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tRead Article\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"590\" height=\"370\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/MA20-Gravettian-Venus-Figure-Alt-Featured.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"   style=\"object-position:center center;\"\/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t(Courtesy INRAP)\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-card__date\">\n\t\t\t\tDigs &amp; Discoveries \t\t\t\tMarch\/April 2012 \t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"content-card__excerpt\">\n\t\t\t\t\tThe Dappled Horses of Pech-Merle, in a cave in southern France, is a nearly 25,000-yearold depiction of horses with spotted coats. While spots are seen in many modern horses, they were believed to be a product of later domestication and thus would not have coexisted with humans in the Paleolithic.That belief turned out to be wrong.\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tRead Article\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"408\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/dappled-horse.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\"  \/>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Digs &amp; Discoveries May\/June 2025 Read Article Courtesy M\u00e9dard Thiry Artifacts May\/June 2021 Read Article (Courtesy Carole Fritz&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":529853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,71913,177681,208010,637,34377,66],"class_list":["post-529852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-carbon-14","tag-cave-art","tag-font-de-gaume-cave","tag-france","tag-paleolithic","tag-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/529852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/529853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=529852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=529852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}