{"id":124,"date":"2015-06-19T22:40:30","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T02:40:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/?p=124"},"modified":"2015-06-19T22:40:30","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T02:40:30","slug":"goldfield-research-on-neanderthal-cooking-gains-publicity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/2015\/06\/19\/goldfield-research-on-neanderthal-cooking-gains-publicity\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldfield research on Neanderthal cooking gains publicity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/ealab\/people\/anna-goldfield\/\" title=\"Anna Goldfield\" target=\"_blank\">Anna Goldfield<\/a> and Ross Booton&#8217;s (former volunteer, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, and current Ph.D. student, University of Sheffield) recent poster presentation at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting\u00a0used mathematical modeling to consider\u00a0how differential rates of meat cooking between\u00a0Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans might lead to differential survival of the two species. It has gained considerable media attention, including coverage in the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/sciencetech\/article-3050984\/Did-Neanderthals-die-couldn-t-master-fire-Cooking-food-given-modern-humans-edge.html\" target=\"_blank\">Daily Mail<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/news\/3220-150420-neanderthal-cooking-herbs\" target=\"_blank\">Archaeology<\/a> magazine, and <a href=\"http:\/\/news.discovery.com\/human\/life\/were-neanderthals-doomed-by-lack-of-fire-mastery-150420\" target=\"_blank\">Discovery News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>This work is a component of Anna&#8217;s dissertation research into\u00a0differences in reindeer carcass processing between\u00a0Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans during glacial periods of the Pleistocene.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anna Goldfield and Ross Booton&#8217;s (former volunteer, Environmental Archaeology Laboratory, and current Ph.D. student, University of Sheffield) recent poster presentation at the Society for American Archaeology Annual Meeting\u00a0used mathematical modeling to consider\u00a0how differential rates of meat cooking between\u00a0Neanderthals and Anatomically Modern Humans might lead to differential survival of the two species. It has gained considerable [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7952,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7952"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":125,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124\/revisions\/125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.bu.edu\/zooarchlab\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}