The bone of 115,000 years of a girl is eaten by prehistoric birds

The Neanderthal girl's finger bones have tiny holes, evidence that a large bird has eaten the baby's corpse.

Scientists discovered the bones of a neanderthal-eaten child. The bones of the arms seem to belong to girls 5 - 7 years old. The team is not sure if the bird attacked the girl or only enlisted the dead body, Newsweek reported on October 8.

Finger bone of a girl in Ciemna cave.(Photo: Newsweek).

Hand bones found in Poland date to more than 115,000 years. It is the oldest remains discovered in this country. Earlier, the date of Poland's oldest human skeleton was only about 50,000 years.

The research team from Jagiellonia University in Krakow caught the skeleton while excavating Ciemna cave in Ojcow town. Previous research concluded that Ciemna Cave used to be the home of former Stone Age people. The cave consists of many walkways about 200 meters long and a large hollow compartment.

In the study to be published in the journal Paleolithic Archeology later this year, the researchers said the bones were less than a centimeter long and were mixed with animal bones."We are convinced it is the remains of them in the very depths of the cave, a few meters from the ground today. This floor also contains many stone tools used by Neanderthals , " said the researcher at the Archaeological Institute studying at the University of Jagiellonia, said.

The bone segment comes from the child's hand that has pitting, there are many tiny holes on the surface."The analysis shows that this is the result of going through the digestive system of a large bird, the first case known from the Ice Age," said Valde-Nowak.

The bird can attack a Neanderthal girl, causing a serious wound that leads to death and eating the child's finger. Another hypothesis is that it pats fingers after the baby girl dies. According to the team, two possibilities are possible.

The findings suggest that Neanderthals may have arrived in Poland some 300,000 years ago."We are still discussing how Neanderthals live in Europe, including Poland, for how long. We also do not know whether they live with people in the region or not," said Valde-Nowak.