{"id":37810,"date":"2022-11-28T13:32:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:32:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=37810"},"modified":"2022-11-28T13:32:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-28T19:32:55","slug":"word-of-the-day-841","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/11\/28\/word-of-the-day-841\/","title":{"rendered":"Word Of The Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Triboluminescent<\/em>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The largest assemblage<\/strong>\u00a0of extremely rare worked Neolithic rock crystal was uncovered by archaeologists from the University of Manchester at the monumental complex of Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, England. More than 330 fragments of crystal were discovered during excavations at the nearly 6,000-year-old complex, which once featured a series of long earthen mounds and large timber buildings. Rock crystal is a form of nearly transparent quartz that was coveted by Neolithic people, who likely believed it had magical properties. \u201cIn the Neolithic period, there was no glass\u2014or any other transparent solid material\u2014so rock crystal would have been a really distinctive and notably different material,\u201d says University of Manchester archaeologist Nick Overton. \u201cQuartz crystals do a few really unusual things with light. They can be used to split white light into the visible spectrum and they are also triboluminescent, which means they emit a flash of light when struck with another stone or crystal.\u201d<em> [&#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.archaeology.org\/issues\/489-2211\/digs\/10894-digs-england-neolithic-crystal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Neolithic Crystal Age<\/a>,&#8221; Jason Urbanus, <\/em><strong>Archaeology<\/strong><em> (November\/December 2022) ]<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>As ever, <em><strong>Archaeology<\/strong><\/em> is one of the more gorgeous magazines out there.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Triboluminescent: The largest assemblage\u00a0of extremely rare worked Neolithic rock crystal was uncovered by archaeologists from the University of Manchester at the monumental complex of Dorstone Hill in Herefordshire, England. More than 330 fragments of crystal were discovered during excavations at the nearly 6,000-year-old complex, which once featured a series of \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2022\/11\/28\/word-of-the-day-841\/\"> 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-37810","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\/37810","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=37810"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37810\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":37811,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37810\/revisions\/37811"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37810"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37810"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37810"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}