{"id":12538,"date":"2018-07-14T10:27:08","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T14:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/?p=12538"},"modified":"2018-07-14T10:27:08","modified_gmt":"2018-07-14T14:27:08","slug":"latest-news-about-ancient-humans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/2018\/07\/latest-news-about-ancient-humans\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest news about ancient humans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a TED talk about symbols painted on cave walls by our ancient ancestors. Genevieve von Petzinger argues that before we had language humans communicated with symbols like these.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=hJnEQCMA5Sg\">Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe | Genevieve von Petzinger<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s an article from <strong>The Atlantic<\/strong> about how they&#8217;ve recently found stone tools in China dating from 2.1 million years ago. This is the oldest evidence of humans outside of Africa found so far.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/science\/archive\/2018\/07\/early-humans-left-africa-250000-years-earlier-than-thought\/564896\/\">Ancient Humans Lived in China 2.1 Million Years Ago<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a TED talk about symbols painted on cave walls by our ancient ancestors. Genevieve von Petzinger argues that before we had language humans communicated with symbols like these. Why are these 32 symbols found in caves all over Europe | Genevieve von Petzinger Here&#8217;s an article from The Atlantic about how they&#8217;ve recently found [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[17,39],"class_list":["post-12538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-from-the-web","tag-archaeology","tag-human-ancestors"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12538"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12540,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12538\/revisions\/12540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.davidmswitzer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}