{"id":1530,"date":"2014-09-29T17:09:30","date_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:09:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1530"},"modified":"2014-09-29T17:09:30","modified_gmt":"2014-09-29T17:09:30","slug":"vm_365-day-91-promoting-pride-in-a-prehistoric-presence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1530","title":{"rendered":"VM_365 Day 92. Promoting Pride in a Prehistoric Presence"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1531\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1531\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-1531\" src=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/VM_92.jpg\" alt=\"Images of Prehistoric Thanet\" width=\"600\" height=\"373\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-1531\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Images from Prehistoric Thanet<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Today&#8217;s image for Day 91 of VM_365 is a reminder that Thanet&#8217;s past extends long into the prehistoric period. Our archaeological record has some of the most interesting and important evidence of the earliest periods of human settlement.<\/p>\n<p>There is evidence from Thanet from the period of the earliest of our <a title=\"Virtual Museum Palaeolithic Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/Virtual%20Museum\/2_Galleries\/G1%20Content\/Gallery1_Intro.html\" target=\"_blank\">human ancestors<\/a>, and from the first hunter gatherers who ranged over the landscape after the last Ice Age hundreds of thousands of years later.<\/p>\n<p>There have been archaeological finds from all the periods recognised by prehistorians, from those <a title=\"Virtual Museum Mesolithic Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/Virtual%20Museum\/2_Galleries\/G2%20Content\/Gallery2_Intro.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Mesolithic<\/a> hunters thorough the <a title=\"VM Neolithic Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/Virtual%20Museum\/2_Galleries\/G3%20Content\/Gallery3_Intro.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Neolithic<\/a>, <a title=\"VM Beaker Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/Virtual%20Museum\/2_Galleries\/GBeaker%20Content\/GBeaker_Intro.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Beaker<\/a>, <a title=\"VM Bronze Age Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/Virtual%20Museum\/2_Galleries\/G4%20Content\/Gallery4_Intro.html\" target=\"_blank\">Bronze Age<\/a> and <a title=\"VM Iron Age Gallery\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/Virtual%20Museum\/2_Galleries\/G5%20Content\/Virtual_Museum_Gallery_5.html\" target=\"_blank\">Iron Age<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Six thousand years of our human story are represented only by archaeological finds and sites and some of the most important have been discovered on the Isle of Thanet. Prehistory is now part of the school curriculum and it should be in the mind of anyone interested in the long story of the Isle of Thanet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today&#8217;s image for Day 91 of VM_365 is a reminder that Thanet&#8217;s past extends long into the prehistoric period. Our archaeological record has some of the most interesting and important evidence of the earliest periods of human settlement. There is evidence from Thanet from the period of the earliest of our human ancestors, and from &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/?p=1530\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">VM_365 Day 92. Promoting Pride in a Prehistoric Presence<\/span> <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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3,4,7,12,16,18,1,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-archaeology-2","category-beaker","category-bronze-age","category-education","category-iron-age","category-mesolithic","category-neolithic","category-uncategorised","category-vm_365-project"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.thanetarch.co.uk\/journal\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}