{"id":737640,"date":"2022-10-12T13:06:16","date_gmt":"2022-10-12T17:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737640"},"modified":"2022-10-12T13:06:16","modified_gmt":"2022-10-12T17:06:16","slug":"dna-from-sediments-offers-insights-into-the-use-of-plants-by-humans-in-the-paleolithic-age","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/?p=737640","title":{"rendered":"DNA from sediments offers insights into the use of plants by humans in the Paleolithic Age"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Under the aegis of the University of Oslo, an international research team has extracted and analyzed plant DNA from the sediments of the Armenian &#8220;Aghitu-3&#8221; cave. About 40,000 to 25,000 years ago, the cave was used as a shelter by humans of the Upper Paleolithic. A detailed analysis of the DNA shows that the cave&#8217;s inhabitants may have used numerous plant species for a variety of purposes, including for medicine, dye, or yarn.&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n Click here for original story, <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2022-10-dna-sediments-insights-humans-paleolithic.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">DNA from sediments offers insights into the use of plants by humans in the Paleolithic Age<\/a>&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\n&#013;<br \/>\nSource: Phys.org&#013;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the aegis of the University of Oslo, an international research team has extracted and analyzed plant DNA from the sediments of the Armenian &#8220;Aghitu-3&#8221; cave. About 40,000 to 25,000&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-737640","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\/737640","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=737640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/737640\/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=737640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=737640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spaceweekly.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=737640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}