{"id":31372,"date":"2026-11-11T23:53:25","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T23:53:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/11\/a-natural-varnish-may-explain-how-37000-year-old-cave-art-survived\/"},"modified":"2026-11-11T23:53:25","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T23:53:25","slug":"a-natural-varnish-may-explain-how-37000-year-old-cave-art-survived","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/11\/a-natural-varnish-may-explain-how-37000-year-old-cave-art-survived\/","title":{"rendered":"A Natural \u201cVarnish\u201d May Explain How 37,000-Year-Old Cave Art Survived"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/a-natural-varnish-may-explain-how-37000-year-old-cave-art-survived\/\" title=\"A Natural \u201cVarnish\u201d May Explain How 37,000-Year-Old Cave Art Survived\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"777\" height=\"696\" src=\"https:\/\/scitechdaily.com\/images\/Prehistoric-Animal-Paintings-in-Chauvet-Cave-777x696.jpg\" class=\"webfeedsFeaturedVisual wp-post-image\" alt=\"Prehistoric Animal Paintings in Chauvet Cave\" \/><\/a>A new technique uses UV light to reveal a natural mineral varnish that may have helped preserve Chauvet Cave\u2019s 37,000-year-old charcoal drawings. About 37,000 years ago, Paleolithic people entered a limestone cave in southeastern France and drew the animals around them, including cave bears, cave lions, bison, and horses. An ancient rockfall later sealed away [&#8230;]<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new technique uses UV light to reveal a natural mineral varnish that may have helped preserve Chauvet Cave\u2019s 37,000-year-old charcoal drawings. About 37,000 years ago, Paleolithic people entered a limestone cave in southeastern France and drew the animals around them, including cave bears, cave lions, bison, and horses. An ancient rockfall later sealed away &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/blog\/2026\/11\/11\/a-natural-varnish-may-explain-how-37000-year-old-cave-art-survived\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;A Natural \u201cVarnish\u201d May Explain How 37,000-Year-Old Cave Art Survived&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":31373,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=31372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31372\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/31373"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mycbh.com\/Games\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}