{"id":1837,"date":"2025-08-09T10:47:03","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:47:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2025-08-09T10:47:03","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T09:47:03","slug":"pre-historic-miners-in-europe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/2025\/08\/09\/pre-historic-miners-in-europe\/","title":{"rendered":"Pre-historic miners in Europe"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/smart-news\/see-the-faces-of-two-sisters-who-toiled-away-in-a-neoithic-mine-6000-years-ago-180987103\/?utm_source=firefox-newtab-en-gb\">Smithsonian magazine<\/a> site has an interesting article about a 3D rendering of 2 female skeletons found in a chert mine* in what is now modern day Czech Republic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The bones of the skeletons were carbon dated to between 4050 and 4340 B.C.E., making them 6,000 years old.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>* Chert was used to make stone tools and weapons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Smithsonian magazine site has an interesting article about a 3D rendering of 2 female skeletons found in a chert mine* in what is now modern day Czech Republic. The bones of the skeletons were carbon dated to between 4050 and 4340 B.C.E., making them 6,000 years old. * Chert was used to make stone [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1837"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1838,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1837\/revisions\/1838"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/industrialheritageireland.info\/Blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}