{"id":700,"date":"2011-04-15T22:07:44","date_gmt":"2011-04-15T12:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/?p=700"},"modified":"2011-06-19T07:22:19","modified_gmt":"2011-06-18T21:22:19","slug":"alien-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/2011\/04\/alien-art-700.html","title":{"rendered":"New Alien Art Unearthed"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The art – close to the Drysdale River, where tourists visit by helicopter for picnics – includes depictions of Wandjinas, the supreme spirit beings with large mouthless faces and black eyes.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
If you watched the excellent Ancient Aliens TV series, you may have caught the segment that showed ancient art from all over the world showing “alien” depictions like the one above, recently discovered in Australia<\/a>. The two most likely possibilities are:<\/p>\n
1) This is a style that came naturally to ancient artists. Generally speaking, large eyes are more appealing (check out the ratios of eye size to face in popular animated TV shows). So just like the ancient fertility symbols \/ goddess figurines had exaggerated hips and breasts, perhaps exaggerated eyes served a similar artistic purpose.<\/p>\n
2) Either a different human species, or aliens, actually looked like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
The art – close to the Drysdale River, where tourists visit by helicopter for picnics – includes depictions of Wandjinas, the supreme spirit beings with large mouthless faces and black eyes.
\nIf you watched the excellent Ancient Aliens TV series, you may have caught the segment that showed ancient art from all over the world showing “alien” depictions like the one above, recently discovered in Australia. The two most likely possibilities are:
\n1) This is a style that came naturally to ancient artists. Generally speaking, large eyes are more appealing (check out the ratios of eye size to face in popular animated TV shows). So just like the ancient fertility symbols \/ goddess figurines had exaggerated hips and breasts, perhaps exaggerated eyes served a similar artistic purpose.
\n2) Either a different human species, or aliens, actually looked like this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[316],"tags":[331],"class_list":["post-700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","tag-aliens-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=700"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1298,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700\/revisions\/1298"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/survive2012.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}