{"id":11431,"date":"2008-10-08T12:14:42","date_gmt":"2008-10-08T19:14:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stage.headlessnauedu-b6hgdzckfdgxgzhe.westus-01.azurewebsites.net\/?p=11431"},"modified":"2015-08-17T14:29:47","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T21:29:47","slug":"discover-prehistoric-heritage-at-stone-age-fair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/discover-prehistoric-heritage-at-stone-age-fair\/","title":{"rendered":"Discover prehistoric heritage at Stone Age Fair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Turn off your iPods and cell phones and turn on to prehistoric life during a Stone Age Fair at NAU from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10.<\/p>\n<p>Hosted by NAU&#8217;s Department of Anthropology and Anthropology Club, the fair will be held in the field between the du Bois Center and the Social and Behavioral Sciences building on south campus.<\/p>\n<p>The fair will include a variety of interactive activities for discovering prehistoric heritage, such as making tools that humans used for thousands of years.<\/p>\n<p>Learn to make stone tools, baskets, pottery and rope or string from plants such as yucca.<br \/>\nAttendees also can practice throwing their own spear using an\u00a0<em>atlatl<\/em>. The\u00a0<em>atlatl<\/em>, or throwing stick, is a special tool used to power a spear. See if you can hit the target and are skillful enough to hunt down a mammoth.<\/p>\n<p>The Stone Age Fair is free. For information, call the anthropology department at (928) 523-3180.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"search-results-excerpt-link\" href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/discover-prehistoric-heritage-at-stone-age-fair\/\">Turn off your iPods and cell phones and turn on to prehistoric life during a Stone Age Fair at NAU from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Friday, Oct. 10. Hosted by NAU&#8217;s Department of Anthropology and Anthropology Club, the fair will be held in the field between the du Bois Center and the Social and&hellip;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":46,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11431","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-happenings"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/46"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11431"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11431\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}