{"id":712617,"date":"2022-01-04T08:35:41","date_gmt":"2022-01-04T12:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=712617"},"modified":"2022-01-04T08:35:41","modified_gmt":"2022-01-04T12:35:41","slug":"digging-deep-dna-molecules-in-ancient-dirt-offer-a-treasure-trove-of-clues-to-our-past","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=712617","title":{"rendered":"Digging deep: DNA molecules in ancient dirt offer a treasure trove of clues to our past"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeological deposits typically consist of a mix of artifacts and the remains of plants and animals\u2014including the occasional human fossil\u2014all held in a matrix of dirt. But these days, we dig for a lot more besides fossils and artifacts.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-01-deep-dna-molecules-ancient-dirt.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\">Digging deep: DNA molecules in ancient dirt offer a treasure trove of clues to our past<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archaeological deposits typically consist of a mix of artifacts and the remains of plants and animals\u2014including the occasional human fossil\u2014all held in a matrix of dirt. But these days, we&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-712617","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\/712617","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=712617"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/712617\/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=712617"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=712617"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=712617"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}