{"id":641991,"date":"2020-01-02T15:00:03","date_gmt":"2020-01-02T19:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641991"},"modified":"2020-01-02T15:00:03","modified_gmt":"2020-01-02T19:00:03","slug":"early-modern-humans-cooked-starchy-food-in-south-africa-170000-years-ago","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=641991","title":{"rendered":"Early modern humans cooked starchy food in South Africa, 170,000 years ago"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The inhabitants of the Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains on the Kwazulu-Natal\/eSwatini border were cooking starchy plants 170 thousand years ago,&#8221; says Professor Lyn Wadley, a scientist from the Wits Evolutionary Studies Institute at the University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa (Wits ESI). &#8220;This discovery is much older than earlier reports for cooking similar plants and it provides a fascinating insight into the behavioural practices of early modern humans in southern Africa. It also implies that they shared food and used wooden sticks to extract plants from the ground.&#8221;&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-01-early-modern-humans-cooked-starchy.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Early modern humans cooked starchy food in South Africa, 170,000 years ago<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;The inhabitants of the Border Cave in the Lebombo Mountains on the Kwazulu-Natal\/eSwatini border were cooking starchy plants 170 thousand years ago,&#8221; says Professor Lyn Wadley, a scientist from the&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641991","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-phys-org"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641991","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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=641991"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641991\/revisions"}],"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=641991"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=641991"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=641991"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}