{"id":3458,"date":"2025-08-10T08:41:17","date_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/?p=3458"},"modified":"2025-08-10T08:41:18","modified_gmt":"2025-08-10T13:41:18","slug":"elephants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/2025\/08\/10\/elephants\/","title":{"rendered":"ELEPHANTS???"},"content":{"rendered":"As I finish up my second week in turkey, I have had a lot of time to think about the purpose of our unit and the others. A question I will ask is why did the architects choose to do the things that they did? We\u2019ve found a lot of evidence to suggest that some of the walls we see were added in after the original walls\/house. There\u2019s even evidence of a doorway added in. Why is this here? We\u2019re close to opening another locus below our first one, and reaching the surface\/ bedrock. There is also evidence to suggest that there was a fire, which could be a huge point in why they made changes in the layout. I think my wildest theory is that this was a \u201cparty house\u201d or a place of communal gathering. We\u2019ve been told about a \u201cmudroom\u201d(for lack of a better term) that had a hippo ivory dice found there. There sheer size of the building also baffles me. There has been so much to uncover and there only a small portion that we\u2019ve begun to excavate. Another fun one that we like is the elephant training room. There was a recent discovery of 2 marble pieces, carved in the shape of an elephants face. What else could this mean? This is the elephant party room. No debate. Thank you for your time ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I finish up my second week in turkey, I have had a lot of time to think about the purpose of our unit and the others. A question I will ask is why did the architects choose to do the things that they did? We\u2019ve found a lot of evidence to suggest that some [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3458","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-research-blog"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4Iz8A-TM","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3458"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3532,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3458\/revisions\/3532"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3458"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3458"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.stolaf.edu\/antiochia2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3458"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}