{"id":657961,"date":"2020-06-15T09:15:37","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=657961"},"modified":"2020-06-15T09:15:37","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T13:15:37","slug":"what-the-archaeological-record-reveals-about-epidemics-throughout-history-and-the-human-response-to-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=657961","title":{"rendered":"What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history \u2013 and the human response to them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19\u2014the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic plague (1342-1353), the Justinian plague (541-542) \u2013 don&#8217;t seem that long ago to archaeologists. We&#8217;re used to thinking about people who lived many centuries or even millennia ago. Evidence found directly on skeletons shows that infectious diseases have been with us since our beginnings as a species.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2020-06-archaeological-reveals-epidemics-history-human.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">What the archaeological record reveals about epidemics throughout history \u2013 and the human response to them<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The previous pandemics to which people often compare COVID-19\u2014the influenza pandemic of 1918, the Black Death bubonic plague (1342-1353), the Justinian plague (541-542) \u2013 don&#8217;t seem that long ago to&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-657961","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\/657961","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=657961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/657961\/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=657961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=657961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=657961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}