The oldest leg bone in England

In Quaternary Science, scientists at John Moores Liverpool University and Nottingham University published the results of the analysis of radioactive carbon of unearthed leg bone at a cave in Cumbria, England.

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Accordingly, this fossil is more than 10,000 years old and is considered the oldest human bone in northern England.

Dr. Wilkinson said scientists are 100% sure that the excavated bone is human and most likely adult bone.

Additional analyzes such as DNA testing and evaluation of bone chemical composition helped determine the sex and previous living area of ​​the person whose bone fragments were found.

The Daily Mail quoted Dr. Dave Wilkinson - an ecologist at Liverpool's John Moores University: 'Until now, stone tools were the earliest evidence of people in the north of England after the end. Last ice age. Now, we really have evidence of ourselves. '

According to Ian Smith - archaeologist and graduate student at Liverpool John Moores University: "The burial of the dead in the cave before this time took place in southern England and then the regions. However, this femur bone fragments are in the same period as the later human bone fragments that were discovered in southern caves, suggesting similar rituals took place in caves at Cumbrian. and Somerset at that time ".

The bone and ruins of horses and elk were discovered from the time of "sudden warming" at the end of the last Ice Age about 12,000 years ago. All bone fragments were excavated in the early 1990s.