{"id":368563,"date":"2017-09-01T11:36:07","date_gmt":"2017-09-01T15:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.sciencedaily.com\/releases\/2017\/09\/170901113607.htm"},"modified":"2017-09-01T11:36:07","modified_gmt":"2017-09-01T15:36:07","slug":"metallurgy-likely-has-more-than-one-birthplace","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=368563","title":{"rendered":"Metallurgy likely has more than one birthplace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>When and where did humans invent metal smelting? Scientists have found the answer to this long-debated question in the history of technology. Metallurgy does not have a single origin but probably arose at various locations at about the same time. The experts reached this conclusion after re-examining the 8,500-year-old copper slag and analysing the chemical composition of other copper artefacts from the Stone Age settlement of \u00c7atalh\u00f6y\u00fck in the Near East. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When and where did humans invent metal smelting? Scientists have found the answer to this long-debated question in the history of technology. Metallurgy does not have a single origin but probably arose at various locations at about the same time. The experts reached this conclusion after re-examining the 8,500-year-old copper slag and analysing the chemical composition of other copper artefacts from the Stone Age settlement of &Ccedil;atalh&ouml;y&uuml;k in the Near East.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-368563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368563","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=368563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":368564,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/368563\/revisions\/368564"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/615444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=368563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=368563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=368563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}