{"id":1995,"date":"2012-09-20T15:33:14","date_gmt":"2012-09-20T21:33:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/lane\/?p=1995"},"modified":"2012-09-20T15:33:14","modified_gmt":"2012-09-20T21:33:14","slug":"stone-age-people-may-have-battled-against-a-zombie-apocalypse-mnn-mother-nature-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/blog\/2012\/09\/20\/stone-age-people-may-have-battled-against-a-zombie-apocalypse-mnn-mother-nature-network\/","title":{"rendered":"Stone Age people may have battled against a zombie apocalypse | MNN &#8211; Mother Nature Network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/lifestyle\/arts-culture\/stories\/stone-age-people-may-have-battled-against-a-zombie-apocalypse\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/borstad.org\/wp\/lane\/files\/2012\/09\/shutter_mn.jpg?w=904\" alt='' \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>But heres the creepy thing: many of the 10,000-year-old skulls appear to have been separated from their spines long after their bodies had already begun to decompose. Why would this skull-smashing ritual be performed so long after individuals had died? Did they only pose a threat to the living long after their original burial and death?<\/p>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mnn.com\/lifestyle\/arts-culture\/stories\/stone-age-people-may-have-battled-against-a-zombie-apocalypse\">Stone Age people may have battled against a zombie apocalypse | MNN &#8211; Mother Nature Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; But heres the creepy thing: many of the 10,000-year-old skulls appear to have been separated from their spines long after their bodies had already begun to decompose. Why would this skull-smashing ritual be performed so long after individuals had died? Did they only pose a threat to the living long after their original burial [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[4,1],"tags":[234,303,363],"class_list":["post-1995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art-history","category-uncategorized","tag-paleolithic","tag-stone-age","tag-zombie"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9nCfs-wb","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1225,"url":"http:\/\/borstad.org\/wp\/blog\/2011\/09\/30\/stone-age-toddlers-had-art-lessons-study-says-science-the-guardian\/","url_meta":{"origin":1995,"position":0},"title":"Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says | Science | The Guardian","author":"lane","date":"30 September 2011","format":false,"excerpt":"Stone age toddlers may have attended a form of prehistoric nursery where they were encouraged to develop their creative skills in cave art, say archaeologists. 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