{"id":358445,"date":"2010-02-22T21:58:51","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T02:58:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.disinfo.com\/?p=23075"},"modified":"2010-02-22T21:58:51","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T02:58:51","slug":"an-archaeological-dig-in-turkey-is-reshaping-human-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/358445","title":{"rendered":"An Archaeological Dig in Turkey is Reshaping Human History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Symmes  writes on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/id\/233844\/page\/1\">Newsweek<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" style=\"margin-left: 100px\" src=\"http:\/\/ndn2.newsweek.com\/media\/93\/Turkey-ruins-FE05-wide-horizontal.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"413\" height=\"294\" \/><\/p>\n<p>They call it potbelly hill, after the soft, round contour of this final lookout in southeastern Turkey. To the north are forested mountains. East of the hill lies the biblical plain of Harran, and to the south is the Syrian border, visible 20 miles away, pointing toward the ancient lands of Mesopotamia and the Fertile Crescent, the region that gave rise to human civilization. And under our feet, according to archeologist Klaus Schmidt, are the stones that mark the spot \u2014 the exact spot \u2014 where humans began that ascent.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patrick Symmes writes on Newsweek: A temple complex in Turkey that predates even the pyramids is rewriting the story of human evolution. They call it potbelly hill, after the soft, round contour of this final lookout in southeastern Turkey. To the north are forested mountains. East of the hill lies the biblical plain of Harran, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2604,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358445","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358445","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2604"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=358445"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358445\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}