{"id":43,"date":"2008-10-06T23:24:44","date_gmt":"2008-10-06T23:24:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/?p=43"},"modified":"2009-02-18T05:25:23","modified_gmt":"2009-02-18T05:25:23","slug":"at-peru-the-oldest-gold-necklace-founded-by-archeologists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/2008\/10\/at-peru-the-oldest-gold-necklace-founded-by-archeologists\/","title":{"rendered":"At Peru the Oldest Gold Necklace founded  by Archeologists:"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Archeologists<\/strong><\/em> made an amazing discovery in southern Peru after they discovered the oldest gold necklace ever found. This necklace carries nine small gold tubes with a sequence of round stones, recognized as either greenstone or turquoise.The necklace\u2019s gold beads are further thick and cylindrical in shape with various lengths. &#8220;This was a big surprise to us,&#8221; lead author Mark Aldenderfer of the University of Arizona said. &#8220;It was not expected in the least,&#8221; said Mark Aldenderfer, one of the experts. &#8220;It\u2019s always fun to find something and go, \u2018Wow, what is that doing here?\u2019The beads differed in <em><strong>length <\/strong><\/em>from<strong> 11.5 to 29 <\/strong>millimeters and<em><strong> weight <\/strong><\/em>from <strong>1.5 to 5.2 <\/strong>grams. The corners of the beads displayed characteristic hammer marks and were folded over other than cut. The next oldest gold ornaments was found in this hemisphere date to about <em><strong>600 years later <\/strong><\/em>than this one, Aldenderfer said adding up that the site is as well situated in Peru but farther north.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Archeologists made an amazing discovery in southern Peru after they discovered the oldest gold necklace ever found. This necklace carries nine small gold tubes with a sequence of round stones, recognized as either greenstone or turquoise.The necklace\u2019s gold beads are further thick and cylindrical in shape with various lengths. &#8220;This was a big surprise to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[120],"class_list":["post-43","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology","tag-amazing-discovery"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=43"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/43\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=43"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=43"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.greatarchaeology.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=43"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}