{"id":32987,"date":"2021-05-15T20:14:20","date_gmt":"2021-05-16T01:14:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=32987"},"modified":"2021-05-15T20:14:20","modified_gmt":"2021-05-16T01:14:20","slug":"word-of-the-day-684","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/15\/word-of-the-day-684\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Aquaterra<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>[Jonathan Benjamin at Flinders University] is part of a small band of underwater archaeologists who are raising their ambitions. To them, the seabed isn\u2019t an inconsequential backdrop on which wrecks fester. It is a vast and complex drowned landscape, scattered with the remnants of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/dn25022-oldest-human-footprints-outside-africa-found-in-uk\/\">ancient human lives<\/a>. Since the ice sheets were at their peak about 20,000 years ago, rising seas have drowned at least 20 million square kilometres of coastal territory around the world \u2013 an area almost as large as the North American continent. Some even think of it as a lost, fragmented continent. They call\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.tandfonline.com\/doi\/abs\/10.1111\/j.1931-0846.2014.12013.x\">it Aquaterra<\/a>.<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/mg25033300-500-exploring-aquaterra-the-drowned-continent-walked-by-our-ancestors\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Exploring &#8216;Aquaterra&#8217;, the drowned continent walked by our ancestors<\/a>,&#8221; Colin Barras, <\/em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><em> (17 April 2021, paywall)]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aquaterra: [Jonathan Benjamin at Flinders University] is part of a small band of underwater archaeologists who are raising their ambitions. To them, the seabed isn\u2019t an inconsequential backdrop on which wrecks fester. It is a vast and complex drowned landscape, scattered with the remnants of ancient human lives. Since the \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2021\/05\/15\/word-of-the-day-684\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32987","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32987"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32988,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32987\/revisions\/32988"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32987"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32987"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32987"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}