{"id":117602,"date":"2016-01-20T10:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T10:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/20\/uristmcdorf-if-you-ever-feel-like\/"},"modified":"2016-01-20T10:10:42","modified_gmt":"2016-01-20T10:10:42","slug":"uristmcdorf-if-you-ever-feel-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/20\/uristmcdorf-if-you-ever-feel-like\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/uristmcdorf.tumblr.com\/post\/84822767142\" target=\"_blank\">uristmcdorf<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>If you ever feel like archaeological mysteries are impossible to solve without positing aliens, just remember that archaeologists ONLY JUST NOW realised that wet sand is easier to drag stuff along on than dry sand\u2026 and that this probably means Egyptian images showing people pouring water from vases in front of stone blocks as they were pulled are probably actually depicting the way those stones were pulled, not some religious ritual of \u201cblessing the rocks\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> FYI in academia, \u201cprobably had religious significance\u201d means \u201cI haven\u2019t got a clue what this is for\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> People who aren\u2019t academics, but who have knowledge of things like spinning fibre, knitting, carving, smithing, building, hairdressing etc, keep on astounding academia by having insights into stuff they thought was a mystery.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>uristmcdorf: If you ever feel like archaeological mysteries are impossible to solve without positing aliens, just remember that archaeologists ONLY JUST NOW realised that wet sand is easier to drag stuff along on than dry sand\u2026 and that this probably means Egyptian images showing people pouring water from vases in front of stone blocks as &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2016\/01\/20\/uristmcdorf-if-you-ever-feel-like\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[1574,261,4],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117602"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=117602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/117602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=117602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=117602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=117602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}