{"id":1493,"date":"2016-02-26T09:25:15","date_gmt":"2016-02-26T09:25:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/potbanks.wordpress.com\/?p=1493"},"modified":"2016-02-26T09:25:15","modified_gmt":"2016-02-26T09:25:15","slug":"the-star-carr-pendant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/2016\/02\/26\/the-star-carr-pendant\/","title":{"rendered":"The Star Carr pendant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.itv.com\/news\/calendar\/2016-02-26\/scientists-find-incredibly-rare-stone-age-pendant\/\">An 11,000 year old engraved shale pendant<\/a> discovered by archaeologists during excavations at the Early Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/scarcarr1.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1494\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/scarcarr1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"scarcarr1\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1494\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/starcarr.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-1495\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/oldimages\/starcarr.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"starcarr\" width=\"300\" height=\"270\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1495\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Given that the scientists have shown it was done in stages it&#8217;s clearly not a whole design like a tree or leaf.  It represents a process, which is most likely to be related to hunting\/foraging in a landscape.  It looks to me like a map of a local river and its tributaries &#8211; plus notches to record hunting\/foraging trips in the marshy fringes of that river and their relative success.  Perhaps the owner might have had a collection of such pendants, to serve as guides to navigation and hunting along a river at different times of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;An 11,000 year old engraved shale pendant discovered by archaeologists during excavations at the Early Mesolithic site at Star Carr in North Yorkshire.&#8221; Given that the scientists have shown it was done in stages it&#8217;s clearly not a whole design like a tree or leaf. It represents a process, which is most likely to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1493","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1493"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1493\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1493"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1493"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jurn.link\/spyders\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1493"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}