{"id":615,"date":"2014-09-04T09:58:55","date_gmt":"2014-09-04T13:58:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=615"},"modified":"2014-09-04T09:58:55","modified_gmt":"2014-09-04T13:58:55","slug":"blurb-orkney-island-dig-reveals-early-man-not-so-primitive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/?p=615","title":{"rendered":"Blurb &#8211; Orkney Island dig reveals early Man not so primitive!"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_616\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-616\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2853288025.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-616\" src=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2853288025-300x213.jpg\" alt=\"Ness of Brodgar\" width=\"300\" height=\"213\" srcset=\"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2853288025-300x213.jpg 300w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2853288025-323x230.jpg 323w, http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/2853288025.jpg 628w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-616\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ness of Brodgar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Archaeologist have uncovered a 5,000-year-old temple complex in Orkney that\u00a0suggests that prehistoric people were a great deal more sophisticated than previously thought.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">The\u00a0dig at Ness of Brodgar, which is at it&#8217;s infancy, has revealed facts\u00a0that\u00a0will have us\u00a0re-evaluate our understanding of how early humans\u00a0lived. The\u00a0complex featured paved walkways, carved stonework, colored facades, even slate roofs at a time when buildings were usually covered with turf, hides, or thatch.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">If you find this interesting head on over to the full story on the\u00a0<a title=\"Ness of Brodgar excavation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.scotsman.com\/lifestyle\/heritage\/orkney-dig-dispels-caveman-image-of-ancestors-1-3490079\" target=\"_blank\">www.scotsman.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #222222;\">Enjoy Nerds!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeologist have uncovered a 5,000-year-old temple complex in Orkney that\u00a0suggests that prehistoric people were a great deal more sophisticated than previously thought. The\u00a0dig at Ness of Brodgar, which is at it&#8217;s infancy, has revealed facts\u00a0that\u00a0will have us\u00a0re-evaluate our understanding of how early humans\u00a0lived. The\u00a0complex featured paved walkways, carved stonework, colored facades, even slate roofs at [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[2,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-615","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blurb","category-history"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=615"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":617,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/615\/revisions\/617"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/talkingnerdy.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}