{"id":893,"date":"2008-03-12T17:18:53","date_gmt":"2008-03-12T17:18:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/yetiinabox.wordpress.com\/2008\/03\/12\/ancient-lunch\/"},"modified":"2008-03-12T17:18:53","modified_gmt":"2008-03-12T17:18:53","slug":"ancient-lunch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/2008\/03\/12\/ancient-lunch\/","title":{"rendered":"Ancient lunch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/science?_ob=ArticleURL&amp;_udi=B6WJS-4M15CV3-1&amp;_user=10&amp;_coverDate=03\/31\/2007&amp;_rdoc=1&amp;_fmt=&amp;_orig=search&amp;_sort=d&amp;view=c&amp;_acct=C000050221&amp;_version=1&amp;_urlVersion=0&amp;_userid=10&amp;md5=f2af909909e7fcb03245c5fdd62205a1\">this<\/a> article on the foraging habits of early humans at Niah Cave in Sarawak. Modern humans there eat bats and even use them for wedding feasts &#8211; one of the rare explicitly ritual uses of bats. WIth luck further contact with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.arch.cam.ac.uk\/clark\/\">Cambridge zooarchaeologists<\/a> behind this work will shed more light on early human uses of small vertebrates.There has been a very long history of humans and bats sharing dwelling spaces. In the beginning, we would have discovered new dwellings by seeing the whirling clouds of bat emerging from a  cave at dusk. Now they depend on us for bat-friendly structures.I only wish the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.alanaecology.com\/acatalog\/Schwegler_Boxes_for_Buildings.html\">Schwegler bat houses<\/a> were a little cheaper &#8211;  \u00a374 is a bit dear for my budget. Otherwise I\u2019m sure we\u2019d have a few along the walls of Yeti Nivas already.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just discovered this article on the foraging habits of early humans at Niah Cave in Sarawak. Modern humans there eat bats and even use them for wedding feasts &#8211;&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[1],"tags":[124,188,190,198,205],"class_list":["post-893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-academia","tag-archaeology","tag-bats","tag-conservation","tag-ethnoecology"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2DSYH-ep","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tending.to\/blether\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}