{"id":656,"date":"2023-10-22T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-22T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=656"},"modified":"2023-10-22T11:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-10-22T10:00:00","slug":"68-mammoths-and-the-pyramids","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=656","title":{"rendered":"68- Mammoths and the Pyramids"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-656-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/77552305\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2023-9-22%2F2a55bbe0-b8be-44a9-0fe5-3813e1db259f.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/77552305\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2023-9-22%2F2a55bbe0-b8be-44a9-0fe5-3813e1db259f.mp3\">https:\/\/anchor.fm\/s\/3d2240d8\/podcast\/play\/77552305\/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2023-9-22%2F2a55bbe0-b8be-44a9-0fe5-3813e1db259f.mp3<\/a><\/audio>\n<p>Woolly mammoths are an iconic feature of the Ice Age in popular imagination. However, on today&#039;s episode, we will also see that they are the basis of a fun fact that may change your perception of the past&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Sources for this episode:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ashman, D., Nature (2000), The sky was the limit for the Pyramid builders (online) [Accessed 10\/10\/2023].<\/li>\n<li>Bartlett, C. (2014), The Design of the Great Pyramid of Khufu. Nexus Network Journal 16: 299-311.<\/li>\n<li>Clayton, P. A. and Price, M. J. (eds.) (2002), The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World. London and New York: Routledge.<\/li>\n<li>The Editors, Encyclopedia Britannica (2023), Pyramid (online) [Accessed 10\/10\/2023].<\/li>\n<li>Fernie, J. D. (2004), Marginalia: Astronomy and the Great Pyramid. American Scientist 92(5): 406-409.<\/li>\n<li>Foster, K. P. (2014), The Hanging Gardens of Nineveh. IRAQ 66: 207-220.<\/li>\n<li>Haynes, G. (2002), The catastrophic extinction of North American mammoths and mastodons. World Archaeology 33(3): 391-416.<\/li>\n<li>Hofreiter, M. and Lister, A. (2006), Mammoths. Current Biology 16(10): R347-R348.<\/li>\n<li>Miller, J. H. and Simpson, C. (2022), When did mammoths go extinct? Nature 612: E1-E3.<\/li>\n<li>Spence, K. (2000), Ancient Egyptian chronology and the astronomical orientation of the pyramids. Nature 408: 320-324.<\/li>\n<li>Vartanyan, S., Arslanov, K., Karhu, J., Possnert, G., &amp; Sulerzhitsky, L. (2008), Collection of radiocarbon dates on the mammoths (<em>Mammuthus Primigenius<\/em>) and other genera of Wrangel Island, northeast Siberia, Russia.\u00a0<em>Quaternary Research,<\/em>\u00a0<em>70<\/em>(1), 51-59. <\/li>\n<li>Wee, Y. K., World Atlas (2019), Did Cleopatra Really Live Closer In Time To The First Lunar Landing Than The Great Pyramids? (online) [Accessed 10\/10\/2023].<\/li>\n<li>Author unknown, Wikipedia (date unknown), Radiocarbon dating (online) [Accessed 10\/10\/2023].<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Woolly mammoths are an iconic feature of the Ice Age in popular imagination. However, on today&#039;s episode, we will also see that they are the basis of a fun fact that may change your perception of the past&#8230; Sources for this episode: Ashman, D., Nature (2000), The sky was the limit for the Pyramid builders &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/?p=656\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;68- Mammoths and the Pyramids&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=656"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/656\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/biopedia.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}