{"id":525708,"date":"2018-09-24T18:37:27","date_gmt":"2018-09-24T22:37:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?guid=defe3c5474ec3546cae27235d679e5b9"},"modified":"2018-09-24T18:37:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-24T22:37:27","slug":"violence-in-pre-columbian-panama-exaggerated-new-study-shows-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=525708","title":{"rendered":"Violence in pre-Columbian Panama exaggerated, new study shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Buried alive. Butchered. Decapitated. Hacked. Mutilated. Killed. Archaeologist Samuel K. Lothrop did not obfuscate when describing what he thought had happened to the 220 bodies his expedition excavated from Panama&#8217;s Playa Venado site in 1951. The only problem is that Lothrop likely got it wrong. A new evaluation of the site&#8217;s remains by Smithsonian archaeologists revealed no signs of trauma at or near time of death. The burial site likely tells a more culturally nuanced story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Buried alive. Butchered. Decapitated. Hacked. Mutilated. Killed. Archaeologist Samuel K. Lothrop did not obfuscate when describing what he thought had happened to the 220 bodies his expedition excavated from Panama&#8217;s Playa Venado site in 1951. The only&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-525708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525708","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"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=525708"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525708\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":525709,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/525708\/revisions\/525709"}],"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=525708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=525708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=525708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}