Analysis Of Bear Bone Reveals Humans Occupied Ireland Long Before Believed
- 8 years ago
The recent analysis of a bear bone that had been sitting in museum storage for over a century may rewrite human history in Ireland as we know it.
The recent analysis of a bear bone that had been sitting in museum storage for over a century may rewrite human history in Ireland as we know it.
Researchers noticed marks on the knee bone that appeared to have been made by tools, so they sent the piece to be radiocarbon dated.
Results showed the patella dated back about 12,500 years, 2-and-a-half millennia prior to the first previously known human activity in the region.
While scientists h
The recent analysis of a bear bone that had been sitting in museum storage for over a century may rewrite human history in Ireland as we know it.
Researchers noticed marks on the knee bone that appeared to have been made by tools, so they sent the piece to be radiocarbon dated.
Results showed the patella dated back about 12,500 years, 2-and-a-half millennia prior to the first previously known human activity in the region.
While scientists h