Posted on 09/06/2022 9:09:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
Traces of Alpine ibex hunters from several thousand years ago have been discovered in the Belianske Tatras in Slovakia.
Based on isotope analyses, the joint Slovak-Polish research expedition in Hučivá Cave (Hučivá diera), say the traces were found in what was a Palaeolithic settlement left by the Magdalenian people, best known from France and Spain in the 13th millennium BC.
Professor Paweł Valde-Nowak from the Institute of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University in Kraków said: “It was a group of hunters specialising in hunting ibex, a species no longer found in the Tatras today.
“We found several hundred blades of thrown weapons, bone needles, a fragment of a stone lamp and many bones of hunted animals.
“They were resting in the remains of a large fire.” ...
Professor Valde-Nowak previously told PAP that scientists had been looking for traces of the prehistoric man's presence in the Tatra caves since the 19th century; unsuccessfully until now. Magura Cave in the Polish Tatras was one of the selected sites, but excavations carried out in that cave before World War II did not bring the expected results.
Palaeozoologists, geologists, sedimentologists, archaeobotanists and palaeogeneticists as well as members of the Science Club of Students of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University participated in the field work in Hučivá Cave.
Later this season, the research will move to the Polish side of the Tatra Mountains, the researchers announced.
The project is carried out by the Institute of Archeology of the Jagiellonian University in collaboration with the Institute of Archaeology of the Slovak Academy of Sciences. The work is financed by the Polish National Science Centre.
(Excerpt) Read more at scienceinpoland.pap.pl ...
Pharmaceutical bottle with herbal ‘heart’ drops from the 1930s found at bottom of river
https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/pharmaceutical-bottle-with-herbal-heart-drops-from-the-1930s-found-at-bottom-of-river-32779
If you knew what the gnu knew.
Barbecue!
I’m a GNU—spelt G - N - U
Steal my bison or my octave and I’ll sue
Nor am I in the least like that dreadful M$ beast
Oh, g-no, g-no, g-no, I’m a GNU!
Ibex you’re right!
They really should have done a better job of policing their area if they did not want to be tracked.
I looked for ibex rock art for this area, but haven”t find any so far.
It was a group of hunters specialising in hunting ibex, a species no longer found in the Tatras today
So they were damn good hunters, apparently.
After being extirpated from most areas by the 19th century, the Alpine ibex was successfully reintroduced to parts of its historical range. All individuals living today descend from the stock in Gran Paradiso National Park in Aosta Valley and Piemonte (Italy), a national park created to help the ibex thrive. The ibex is the emblem of both the Gran Paradiso National Park, and the contiguous Vanoise National Park across the French border. The species is currently listed as of least concern by the IUCN, but went through a population bottleneck of fewer than 100 individuals during its near-extinction event. This has led to very low genetic diversity across populations.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alpine_ibex
iBex had iPads...........................
I think this proves that one should not mess with Alpine ibex
:^)
Nature’s cathedral: People have gathered in this cave for at least 10,000 years
Exchange of knowledge and expertise, bartering and wooing. Kirkhellaren Cave on Sanna in Træna is one of Norway’s oldest meeting places, having first been used about 10,000 years ago.
Helge M. Markusson
THE FRAM CENTRE
Thursday 08. September 2022 - 04:30
https://partner.sciencenorway.no/cathedral-fram-centre/natures-cathedral-people-have-gathered-in-this-cave-for-at-least-10000-years/2071325
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