{"id":646793,"date":"2020-02-18T18:00:16","date_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:00:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=646793"},"modified":"2020-02-18T18:00:16","modified_gmt":"2020-02-18T22:00:16","slug":"did-neanderthals-bury-their-dead-with-flowers-iraq-cave-yields-new-clues","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=646793","title":{"rendered":"Did Neanderthals bury their dead with flowers? Iraq cave yields new clues"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in an Iraqi cave already famous for fossils of these extinct cousins of our species is providing fresh evidence that they buried their dead &#8211; and intriguing clues that flowers may have been used in such rituals.<\/p>\n<div class=\"feedflare\">\n<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=EKKH355aKf0:qTvkXaSawrU:yIl2AUoC8zA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=EKKH355aKf0:qTvkXaSawrU:F7zBnMyn0Lo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~ff\/reuters\/scienceNews?a=EKKH355aKf0:qTvkXaSawrU:V_sGLiPBpWU\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>\n<\/div>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\" alt=\"\" \/>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.reuters.com\/~r\/reuters\/scienceNews\/~3\/EKKH355aKf0\/did-neanderthals-bury-their-dead-with-flowers-iraq-cave-yields-new-clues-idUSKBN20C2M7\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Did Neanderthals bury their dead with flowers? Iraq cave yields new clues<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Reuters Science News&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Neanderthal skeleton unearthed in an Iraqi cave already famous for fossils of these extinct cousins of our species is providing fresh evidence that they buried their dead &#8211; and&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":615444,"comment_status":"false","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-646793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-genaero"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646793","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=646793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/646793\/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=646793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=646793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=646793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}