{"id":22,"date":"2012-09-05T11:22:33","date_gmt":"2012-09-05T15:22:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/template\/?page_id=22"},"modified":"2026-03-19T08:54:41","modified_gmt":"2026-03-19T12:54:41","slug":"research","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kgrillo\/research\/","title":{"rendered":"In the News"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<section class=\"fullwidth-text-block\">\r\n\t<div class=\"container px-0 pt-5\">\r\n\t\t<div class=\"row align-items-start\">\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"col-12\">\r\n\t\t\t\t\n<h1 class=\"wp-block-heading\">In the News<\/h1>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">More information about our study on the origins of lactase persistence in eastern Africa<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>UF CLAS News: <a href=\"http:\/\/New%20Research%20Finds%20Ancient%20East%20African%20Herders%20Consumed%20Milk%205K%20Years%20Ago\">&#8220;Milk Pioneers:\u00a0New Research Finds Ancient East African Herders Consumed Milk 5K Years Ago&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected media coverage of our discoveries at the Lothagam North Pillar Site, northwestern Kenya<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>New York Times:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/08\/20\/science\/lake-turkana-burials-pillars.html\">\u201cAncient Burial Pits Reveal Sophisticated Rituals\u201d\u00a0<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Washington Post:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/science\/2018\/08\/21\/this-ancient-burial-ground-tells-story-unity-time-climate-chaos\/?utm_term=.9c7abd27ccd8\">\u00a0\u201cThis ancient burial ground tells a story of unity in a time of climate chaos\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Guardian:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/science\/2018\/aug\/20\/kenya-burial-site-shows-community-spirit-of-herders-5000-years-ago\">\u00a0\u201cKenya burial site shows community spirit of herders 5,000 years ago\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>National Geographic:<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nationalgeographic.com\/science\/2018\/08\/news-ancient-pillar-monument-burial-mound-africa\/\">\u00a0\u201cAncient Riches Discovered at Mysterious Burial Monument\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Selected media coverage of our ancient DNA study (Skoglund et al. 2017), which includes data from Luxmanda, Tanzania<\/h4>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Nature:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nature.com\/news\/ancient-genome-studies-grapple-with-africa-s-past-1.22272\">\u201cAncient-genome studies grapple with Africa\u2019s past\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Science:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciencemag.org\/news\/2017\/07\/first-big-efforts-sequence-ancient-african-dna-reveal-how-early-humans-swept-across\">\u201cUpdated: First big efforts to sequence ancient African DNA reveal how early humans swept across the continent\u201d<\/a><\/li>\n<li>New York Times:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/09\/21\/science\/africa-dna-migration.html?_r=1\">\u201cClues to Africa\u2019s Mysterious Past Found in Ancient Skeletons\u201d<\/a><\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\r\n\t\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/div>\r\n\t<\/div>\r\n<\/section>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"featured_post":"","footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"class_list":["post-22","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kgrillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kgrillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kgrillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kgrillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kgrillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kgrillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":228,"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kgrillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/22\/revisions\/228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/people.clas.ufl.edu\/kgrillo\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}