{"id":721,"date":"2026-06-12T05:56:34","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:56:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/they-take-you-out-of-life-out-of-time-a-journey-into-spains-astonishing-cave-paintings-archaeology-the-guardian\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T05:56:34","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T05:56:34","slug":"they-take-you-out-of-life-out-of-time-a-journey-into-spains-astonishing-cave-paintings-archaeology-the-guardian","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/they-take-you-out-of-life-out-of-time-a-journey-into-spains-astonishing-cave-paintings-archaeology-the-guardian\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018They take you out of life, out of time\u2019: a journey into Spain\u2019s astonishing cave paintings | Archaeology | The Guardian"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Jung built his concept of the collective unconscious on a dream he had about descending the staircase of a big house. Each level corresponded to a lower, earlier layer of human history, from the 20th century all the way down to a bedrock floor scattered with the oldest Homo sapiens skulls. So, to stand before the images our ancestors made in that basement is to recognise or remember archetypes that were once important to us.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that we see what they saw in caves,\u201d said Barkai. \u201cOur subconscious is inherited from theirs, and we share the same feelings as they did when entering those spaces.\u201d<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/jun\/02\/journey-into-spain-palaeolithic-cave-paintings-altamira\">www.theguardian.com\/science\/2026\/jun\/02\/journey-into-spain-palaeolithic-cave-paintings-altamira<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jung built his concept of the collective unconscious on a dream he had about descending the staircase of a big house. Each level corresponded to a lower, earlier layer of human history, from the 20th century all the way down to a bedrock floor scattered with the oldest Homo sapiens skulls. So, to stand before [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[142,7,15,143],"class_list":["post-721","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-cave-art","tag-consciousness","tag-culture","tag-prehistory"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=721"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/721\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=721"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=721"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=721"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}