{"id":61,"date":"2019-11-29T03:22:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-29T07:22:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/?p=61"},"modified":"2019-11-29T03:22:18","modified_gmt":"2019-11-29T07:22:18","slug":"velda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/2019\/11\/29\/velda\/","title":{"rendered":"Velda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Velda, or at least her imagined person, is my favorite of the seven daughters. Sykes describes a strong woman who defied expectations when she chose to not mate with another \u201cman\u201d after her previous mate\u2019s tragic death, instead working harder herself to support her three children and the rest of her band. Indeed, the most imaginative, the picture of Velda is ultimately unclear. However, what we can be certain of is that, today, approximately 5 percent of Europeans are direct maternal descendents of Velda.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Time Period<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: 17,000 years ago<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Band Type: <\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Hunter-Gatherer<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Climate<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Warmer than at the peak of the Ice Age (20,000 years ago), but still very cold<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Ancient Location<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Northern Spain<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b>Modern Location<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">: Modern descendents of Velda are found throughout western Europe, with a few descendents in Finland and northern Norway.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Velda, or at least her imagined person, is my favorite of the seven daughters. Sykes describes a strong woman who defied expectations when she chose to not mate with another \u201cman\u201d after her previous mate\u2019s tragic death, instead working harder herself to support her three children and the rest of her band. Indeed, the most [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3560,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395846],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-61","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-velda"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3560"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/62"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.nd.edu\/niovino\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}