{"id":61,"date":"2016-03-09T12:10:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:10:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/?p=61"},"modified":"2016-03-09T12:11:23","modified_gmt":"2016-03-09T12:11:23","slug":"two-trulife-members-on-radio-4s-in-our-time-tomorrow-9am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/2016\/03\/09\/two-trulife-members-on-radio-4s-in-our-time-tomorrow-9am\/","title":{"rendered":"Two TruLife members on Radio 4&#8217;s In Our Time (tomorrow 9am)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow at 9am two TruLife members will be interviewed by Melvyn Bragg for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b072n5x3\">BBC Radio 4&#8217;s In Our Time on The Maya Civilization<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>TruLife members <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/classics\/staff\/vis.html\">Benjamin Vis<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ucl.ac.uk\/archaeology\/people\/staff\/graham\">Elizabeth Graham<\/a> will be joined by <a href=\"http:\/\/history.psu.edu\/directory\/mxr40\">Matthew Restall<\/a> (Pennsylvania State University)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Synopsis from Radio 4<\/strong><br \/>\nMelvyn Bragg and guests discuss the Maya Civilization, developed by the Maya people, which flourished in central America from around 250 AD in great cities such as Chichen Itza and Uxmal with advances in mathematics, architecture and astronomy. Long before the Spanish Conquest in the 16th Century, major cities had been abandoned for reasons unknown, although there are many theories including overpopulation and changing climate. The hundreds of Maya sites across Belize, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras and Mexico raise intriguing questions about one of the world&#8217;s great pre-industrial civilizations.<\/p>\n<p>With<\/p>\n<p>Elizabeth Graham<br \/>\nProfessor of Mesoamerican Archaeology at University College London<\/p>\n<p>Matthew Restall<br \/>\nEdwin Erle Sparks Professor of Latin American History and Anthropology at Pennsylvania State University<\/p>\n<p>And<\/p>\n<p>Benjamin Vis<br \/>\nEastern ARC Research Fellow in Digital Humanities at the University of Kent<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tomorrow at 9am two TruLife members will be interviewed by Melvyn Bragg for BBC Radio 4&#8217;s In Our Time on&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/2016\/03\/09\/two-trulife-members-on-radio-4s-in-our-time-tomorrow-9am\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Two TruLife members on Radio 4&#8217;s In Our Time (tomorrow 9am)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":41320,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/41320"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=61"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/61\/revisions\/63"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=61"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=61"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/trulife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=61"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}